Anonymous ID: e52219 May 2, 2020, 9:34 p.m. No.9007825   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

โ€œEvery act of resistance to the government required heroism quite out of proportion to the magnitude of the act. It was safer to keep dynamite during the rule of Alexander II than it was to shelter the orphan of an enemy of the people under Stalin. Nonetheless, how many such children were taken in and savedโ€ฆโ€โ€• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956:

Anonymous ID: e52219 May 2, 2020, 10 p.m. No.9008063   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>8079 >>8095

you must KNOW history

 

During the days of Stalin, one wrong word could end with the secret police at your door, ready to drag you off to a Soviet gulag โ€“ one of the many forced labor camps where inmates worked until they died.

 

Historians estimate that nearly 14 million people were thrown into a gulag prison during Stalinโ€™s reign.Some were political prisoners, rounded up for speaking out against the Soviet regime. Others were criminals and thieves. And some were just ordinary people, caught cracking an unkind word about a Soviet official.

 

Still more inmates came from the Eastern Bloc of Europe โ€“ conquered countries that were made subservient to the Soviet regime. The families of priests, professors, and important figures would be rounded up and sent off to the work camps, keeping them out of the way while the Soviet Union systematically erased their culture.

 

Gulag Archipelago