The Gulag Archipelago

“This was while I was reading Soljenitson's book on the Gulleg archipelago and various accounts of totalitarian brutality in Nazi Germany and and so forth and some psychoanalytic work and and that's where the story part emerges.”

“So Soljanitson talks in in the Gulag archipelago and I have to bring that up one once per podcast by necessity you know about these intellectuals who are in a camp being worked to death and they had a seminar that they would conduct once a week and they would all meet and they would talk about their specialty”

“if you read the gulag archipelago for example solzhenitson does a masterful job of indicating how the consequences the brutal tyrannical actions of Lenin and stellen were necessary concomitants to the or necessary outcomes of the axioms that were embedded in the Communist world view”

“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.”

“you know one of the things I really appreciated about reading solutions Gulag archipelago was his insistence that what happened in the Soviet Union was not an aberration in relationship to the set of ideas that made up the Communist utopian Vision”

“and then solzhenitzen made much of that in the gulag archipelago because he talked about the fact that each person within a totalitarian system”

“today we are posed to discuss his newest book live not by lies inspired not least by the great alexander solzhenitsyn author of the gulag archipelago the book that helped bring down the evil soviet empire”

“you remember in solzhenitsyn in the second part of the gulag second volume of the gulag archipelago”

“until solzhenitsyn published the gulag archipelago in which case they were still marxists they just went underground”

“I've had a great opportunity in the last month and a half I got asked to write the preface to the 50th anniversary edition of Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago mm-hmm and so I've been writing that and one of the things Solzhenitsyn did which was one of the things he one of the things that made that book arguably the greatest”

“well and i think that's why i recommend it to people continually to read soldier knits in school like archipelago so actually there's a set of books that let lay this out perfectly”

“and well and then those ideas were put into practice first in the Soviet Union and Alexander Solzhenitsyn who wrote the Gulag Archipelago did a very lovely job of detailing in in horrifying detail how those initial doctrines were transformed into legislation and then how those legislation was transformed into endless genocide essentially and almost destroyed the world”

“and that culminated say in 19 Boat 1973 when Solzhenitsyn's book was published the French intellectuals changed their tune”

“read the Gulag Archipelago first because you need to get your arguments together and know Solzhenitsyn won a Nobel Prize for that book and for his other writing and it was one of the one of the key there was a couple of things that brought down the Soviet Union but one of them was Alexander Solzhenitsyn book and he”

“soier niton wrote the gulag archipelago in the 1970s and he detailed the transformation of the Marxist philosophical Doctrine”

“No, I never thought particularly a lot about Russia, although I was really into history and so I'd read about a lot about World War II, Russian war memoirs, you know, so I read and really was impacted by the Gulag Archipelago.”

“And then somehow came across the Gulag Archipelago. And I was fairly young. You know, I was probably 17, 18 when I first read it. And it impacted me in a lot of ways that were relevant to my, you know, the little spiritual path that I was on before because a lot of what he talks about is that”

“I read The Gulag Archipelago was don't pursue happiness because the ingredients to happiness can be taken from you outside of your control, your health, your, but pursue like a spiritual fullness.”

“And then, you know, I find myself on this show and I had a thought like, why is this easy to me in a way?”

“Sometimes a lot of times I will try to read in Russian just the key the Gulag Archipelago yeah one of my favorites”

“sometimes a lot of times I will try to read in Russian just the key the Gulag Archipelago yeah one of my favorites a heavy reading heavy reading”

“so I for me it was good knowing my like family history you know they're like Assyrians who got you know in the sea Armenian Genocide kind of got wiped out and so there's have brutal stories of what happened to him it's like puts all my suffering in perspective and if you read the Gulag Archipelago it makes it”

“I mean, hey, instead of watching the ninth NFL football game that weekend, turn it off and listen to an audio book, read the Gulag Archipelago, read 1984, read Brave New World, go deeper.”

“instead of watching the ninth NFL football game that weekend, turn it off and listen to an audiobook, read the Gulag Archipelago, read 1984, read Brave New World, go deeper, that it, the regime, hates an informed population.”

“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.”

“well know that's the the gulag archipelago famous passage where in the Soviet Union the there's a soldier he's on trial for murder a guy was trying to stab him he grabbed the the knife fought back and stabed the other guy and they said why did you do that and he's like he was going to kill me and”

“and how we burned in the camps later thinking what would things have been like it if every security operative when he went out went out at night to make an arrest had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say goodbye to his family Alexander sulan nen”

“Soulja nson was up there in Siberia and he talked about in Gulag archipelago he talked about like eating prehistoric Frozen salamanders and stuff”

“you know does that mean the gulag archipelago has been banned as well”

“read the gulag archipelago this is what the average person can do stop doing things you know are wrong and stop saying things you know aren't true”

“he studied like the gulag archipelago and the rise of totalitarianism he's like i've studied the nazis i know where they come from”

“Oh, I think everyone should read the gulag archipelago. I think that is such a wonderful book. This is Alexander Andrew Solzhenitsyn. It’s a story of his time.”

“and that's why everyone started reading Vatlav Havl and Alexander Soljen again because our society felt like those Eastern European societies is at the time of”

“I'm thinking of of Sol n who in the goog and in the first Circle which we we talked about on this program”

“I recommend that all my listeners read the goog archipelago by Sol niten or the goog by Ann applebomb one dramatically larger than the longer than the other but the Sol book is has been Abridged I don't like abridgments but the GL archipelago is three volumes and it but it I think it's very much worth reading”

“the gulag archipelago is a boy that should be a sign it should be a signed reading in public school and of course it isn't but that's something that at least the first two volumes”

“so I'm I'm a big proponent of SOI nen's famous uh the the author of gulak archipelago that that the line between good and evil runs to the heart of every man that all of us have that in us”

“For example, Anne Applebaum's book, Gulag, is very different from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago. The former is a rigorous, comprehensive historical account. The latter is a literary, psychological, and personal portrait of Soviet society.”

“So you have, just 'cause you mentioned "Gulag Archipelago", I gotta go there.”

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

“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.”

“Solzhenitsyn of course is the author of Gulag Archipelago.”

“i have to ask you about gulag archipelago by soulja nitzin that speak to this very point”

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

“and also reveals that the line between good and evil runs to the heart every man as he wrote in gulag archipelago”

“as i'm running through very hot heat i'm listening to glug archipelago”

“because i'm reading about torture in the gulag archipelago currently there's a bit of a camaraderie you're in it together”

“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!”

“this is starting to get a theme with glug archipelago i'm sorry i'm reading it currently that's a sticky book yeah it's very sticky in your mind”

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

“Because of Jordan Peterson Gulag archipelago that's great the sultanitsin guy talks about in the gulags”

“in the gulag archipelago the line that separates good and evil runs through each and every one of us”

“that's a sultanates in line from gulag archipelago the line that separates good and evil runs through every human heart”

“so on that campaign you're 14 years old and on your commute you're reading The Gulag Archipelago well it was a bus subway streetcar to go it was really something for volunteer right it was summer holiday and so my mother had given me as a birthday present the paperback edition of The Gulag Archipelago and urged me to read”

“it was summer holiday and so my mother had given me as a birthday present the paperback edition of The Gulag Archipelago and urged me to read it”

“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.”

“Gulag archipelago is out there, San's out there, there's been so many books written about the bad conditions of Communism”

“and his experience um I knew that I was not going to write a new version of the gulag archipelago I was not going to write a book about a guy in a prison camp”

“You know from the Gulag archipelago the souljitsen text talks about how good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And it would be so easy, wouldn't it, if you could just put all the bad people in one place and all the good people in another place and then get rid of all the bad people.”

“please look up the gulag our cheap PO leggo AR CH IPE l AG oh I would actually like to read about that”

“and soja niton wrote about klak also Stalin deported there in the 30s one of the best scientists from some Peterburg in Moscow in prison there they were too intelligent for the Soviet system”

“right that's the gulag archipelago is you get arrested they don't tell you what you did wrong”

“as interesting scene in the opening pages of Soul n's Gulag where he talks about a woman who goes into a market and her friends tell her you're on a list you need to leave now”

“The answer to which has to be understood, which is it's what Solzhenitsyn since says at one point in "Gulag Archipelago" in that passage where he describes...”

“you have morals which is typical of I mean souljitsen that's that's where I got that that that idea from souljits would talk about Soviet Union that way you know you're expected as a good communist or or good citizen you're expected to know better”

“what's happening with crime and with property is exactly what suan niton wrote about”

“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.”

“I mean when he talks about whatever he's talking about word you know he's talking about Gulag Archipelago or anything he's talking about it from a place of profound understanding”

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

“also because I've been looking at the gulag archipelago which I know a lot of people have been talking about lately but um Soul nson talks about when he was in prison at the lubianka”

“I didn't read "Gulag Archipelago" for "The White Pill".”

“i read a good chunk of the gulag archipelago when i was a teenager um because my my grandfather had it in his house because he was one of these americans who was obsessed with the soviet union”

“you know, the the the Solzhenitsyn writes in The Gulag Archipelago, they put nuns in special sections of the Gulag with prostitutes.”

“Everyone, you know, you and I were raised reading or. Well, and Alice Huxley and, and, you know, Robert Heinlein and Alexander Solzhenitsyn and, and all of these other books that were part of classical literature that was taught in every American classroom. It said the first step to totalitarianism is always begins with censorship.”

“there's a great story in Su the gulak apago where some minor party functionary has given a spe and everyone gets up and is applauding and they're all so terrified of being the first person to stop applauding that they just keep applauding and keep applauding until their hands look like hamburgers”

“Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago" is full of stories of dedicated communists who find themselves in the gulag”

“Honestly, right now, I've been reading the Gulag Archipelago again, just listening to it's like it's a very heavy book.”

“I recently read the gulak archipelago and sanan writes in there that the first concentration camps were invented by the Soviets”

“truth at the end of the day this is the one thing that have you ever read the gulag archipelago by solution no i haven't it's the story of the gulags it's a gigantic book”

“we had the story from uh uh sultanitson about uh from the gulag archipelago that you know a guy was being threatened but with by a knife”

“as explained in uh was it sultanitsen the the gulag archipelago”

“and then i responded with the gulag archipelago was also banned and they all went whoa really”

“when you see what happens years down the road to these countries no the gulag archipelago for instance you see what happens to anyone who's doing better than anyone else”