The Gulag Archipelago ABRIDGED
Chapter 02 – The History of Our Sewage Disposal System: https://files.catbox.moe/3y8hwv.mp3
Why you should listen:
Why Abridged?
If you don't have an intimate relationship with Russian history, you'll be lost most of the time.
The full audio version is about an 80 hour adventure of dry listening.
This was written for a western audience.
Previous Chapters:
Introduction: https://files.catbox.moe/73kxit.mp3**
Chapter 01 - Arrest: https://files.catbox.moe/ep8du7.mp3**
Fun quotes which haunt me from chapter 02:
"We are not fighting against single individuals. We are exterminating the bourgeoisie as a class. It is not necessary during the interrogation to look for evidence proving that the accused opposed the Soviets by word or action. The first question which you should ask him is what class does he belong to, what is his origin, his education and his profession. These are the questions which will determine the fate of the accused. "
"in 1921 the arrests of members of all non-Bolshevik parties were expanded and systematized. In fact, all Russia’s political parties had been buried, except the victorious one."
"True, they were supposedly being arrested and tried not for their actual faith but for openly declaring their convictions and for bringing up their children in the same spirit. As Tanya Khodkevich wrote:
You can pray freely
But just so God alone can hear.
(She received a ten-year sentence for these verses.)"
"Religious prisoners, however, were prohibited from ever returning to their children and their home areas.)"
"Arrests rolled through the streets and apartment houses like an epidemic. Just as people transmit an epidemic infection from one to another without knowing it, by such innocent means as a handshake, a breath, handing someone something, so, too, they passed on the infection of inevitable arrest by a handshake, by a breath, by a chance meeting on the street. For if you are destined to confess tomorrow that you organized an underground group to poison the city’s water supply, and if today I shake hands with you on the street, that means I, too, am doomed. "
**The Gulag Archipelago ABRIDGED**
**Chapter 02 – The History of Our Sewage Disposal System: https://files.catbox.moe/3y8hwv.mp3**
Why you should listen:
- This is like 1984 before 1984 was written.
- The powers perpetrating mass incarceration and murder throughout this book are still in power today.
Why Abridged?
- If you don't have an intimate relationship with Russian history, you'll be lost most of the time.
- The full audio version is about an 80 hour adventure of dry listening.
- This was written for a western audience.
Previous Chapters:
Introduction: https://files.catbox.moe/73kxit.mp3**
Chapter 01 - Arrest: https://files.catbox.moe/ep8du7.mp3**
Fun quotes which haunt me from chapter 02:
- *"We are not fighting against single individuals. We are exterminating the bourgeoisie as a class. It is not necessary during the interrogation to look for evidence proving that the accused opposed the Soviets by word or action. The first question which you should ask him is what class does he belong to, what is his origin, his education and his profession. These are the questions which will determine the fate of the accused. "*
- *"in 1921 the arrests of members of all non-Bolshevik parties were expanded and systematized. In fact, all Russia’s political parties had been buried, except the victorious one."*
- *"True, they were supposedly being arrested and tried not for their actual faith but for openly declaring their convictions and for bringing up their children in the same spirit. As Tanya Khodkevich wrote:
You can pray freely
But just so God alone can hear.
(She received a ten-year sentence for these verses.)"*
- *"Religious prisoners, however, were prohibited from ever returning to their children and their home areas.)"*
- *"Arrests rolled through the streets and apartment houses like an epidemic. Just as people transmit an epidemic infection from one to another without knowing it, by such innocent means as a handshake, a breath, handing someone something, so, too, they passed on the infection of inevitable arrest by a handshake, by a breath, by a chance meeting on the street. For if you are destined to confess tomorrow that you organized an underground group to poison the city’s water supply, and if today I shake hands with you on the street, that means I, too, am doomed. "*
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