It is long because it tells how a entire population like ours was enslaved, murdered and tortured and ratted out by their neighbors and countrymen. I recommend reading it in stages, because this the most depressing book that has ever been written, to my knowledge. You will never look at your friends and neighbors the same way. You will never fully trust anyone again because they can be broken. They will betray, lie or anything to stop the pain. Torture included being forced to stand for days. Being beat with a cudgel on the tailbone, which sent horrific pain through the spine into the brain, giving the person severe headaches their entire life. Sleep deprivation, starvation and you never knew when they were coming for you. The parade of horror just keeps coming. Others were sent to forced labor camps in Siberia or wherever the Party needed slave labor. Horrible conditions freezing cold and millions died. He estimated about 60 million White people died under Lenin and Stalin. Nothing was sacred to them. They confiscated the food from farms, every grain, and let the farmers starve. Some resorted to cannibalism and ate children. If you get through half the book, you will have broadened your mind immeasurably. Then when people spout shit about Hitler being the most evil man who ever lived, you realized they are brainwashed by these same bastards that Hitler was fighting against. The movie "The Greatest Story Never Told" touches on some of the atrocities. The slaughter in nothing we can begin to understand.