Архипелаг ГУЛАГ

“Well, that's the Gulag Archipelago famous passage, yeah. In the Soviet Union, there's a soldier on trial for murder; a guy was trying to stab him.”

“I didn't aim for it; I hoped it was a tangential benefit, but aimed at something else. That was the lessons I got from "The Gulag Archipelago."”

“In Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn famously writes about the line between good and evil and how it runs through every man's heart.”

“Speaking of gulags, in your new book, 'Inhumans,' do you get into the stuff that was going on in the gulags? Or are you talking more about the conditions that led up to putting people in them? It is more focused because we're not going to reinvent the wheel; writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn's 'Gulag Archipelago' is out there.”

“You've previously examined the Russian question, particularly as articulated by Solzhenitsyn in 1994—author known for the Gulag Archipelago and of half-Ukrainian descent.”

“They were nice enough to let me take a book, so I finished off The Gulag Archipelago—it was quite a useful time in the cells, and you're thinking, well, I don't know, that bad.”

“If you read the Gulag Archipelago, for example, Solzhenitsyn does a masterful job of indicating how the consequences, the brutal, tyrannical actions of Lenin and Stalin, were necessary concomitants to—or necessary outcomes of—the axioms that were embedded in the Communist worldview.”

“I have to ask you about Gulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn that speaks to this very point.”

“Because I'm reading about torture in the Gulag Archipelago currently! There's a bit of a camaraderie! You're in it together, the torturer and the tortured!”

“That Solzhenitsyn also reveals that, uh, the line between good and evil runs through the heart of every man, as he wrote in Gulag Archipelago!”

“Yes, it's very sticky in your mind. Very tough as I'm running through very hot heat while listening to 'Gulag Archipelago'.”

“I was listening to 'Gulag Archipelago', which was a very welcome break because I was looking for any excuse to stop.”

“And the same thing with Gulag Archipelago talking about some of the darkest aspects of human history right when all of that stuff is forbidden, when it's banned.”