LEST WE FORGET : The Gulag Archipelago confirmed the horrors of the Soviet Union and Marxist collect

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LEST WE FORGET : The Gulag Archipelago confirmed the horrors of the Soviet Union and Marxist collectivist ideology
Posted: July 2, 2020 | Author: Jamie Spry

“The greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever levelled in modern times. One sure to stick in the craw of the Soviet propaganda machine with increasing discomfort until it has done its work.” — George F. Kennan (American diplomat and scholar)

“It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century.” — David Remnick, New Yorker

“Best Nonfiction Book of the Twentieth Century” — Time magazine
 

JORDAN PETERSON’s forward to the abridged version of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s epic The Gulag Archipelago is a literary masterpiece. Lucid, instructive and powerful. Who, having enjoyed the experience of reading it, would doubt Peterson’s claim that “If there was any excuse to be a Marxist in 1917… there is absolutely and ­finally no excuse now.” For history is littered with diabolical examples of national leaders implementing grotesque, murderous means to justify the end, an impossible utopian Marxist mirage.

https://climatism.blog/2020/07/02/lest-we-forget-the-gulag-archipelago-confirmed-the-horrors-of-the-soviet-union-and-marxist-collectivist-ideology/

[XenaLee]

Thanks for the reminder.  I downloaded that book almost a year ago but forgot all about it.  Need to read it now.  Too bad our "G" Government doesn't feel it necessary to inform kids in public schools about the horrors of communism.   But we know the "why" behind that, don't we.