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The Gulag Archipelago ABRIDGED
Chapter 06 – That Spring: https://files.catbox.moe/12a1lm.mp3
I give my apologies to the no doubt often mispronounced Russian names and places. Additional apologies for sometimes mispronounced English words…
This Chapter:
The Russians had it so terrible under Stalin that several hundred thousand men allied themselves with Hitler to fight their Fatherland. When the Americans and British armies capture them, they send them right back into Stalin's loving arms.
I had to re-record the first quote below a few times because I kept laughing:
>The democratic West simply could not understand: What do you mean when you call yourselves a political opposition? An opposition exists inside your country? Why has it never publicly declared its existence? If you are dissatisfied with Stalin, go back home and, in the first subsequent election, do not re-elect him. That would be the honest course.
>The only soldier in the world who cannot surrender is the soldier of the world’s one and only Red Army. That’s what it says in our military statutes. (The Germans would shout at us from their trenches: “Ivan plen nicht!”—“Ivan no prisoner!”) Who can picture all that means? There is war; there is death—but there is no surrender! What a discovery! What it means is: Go and die; we will go on living. And if you lose your legs, yet manage to return from captivity on crutches, we will convict you.
>Very few of the war prisoners returned across the Soviet border as free men, and if one happened to get through by accident because of the prevailing chaos, he was seized later on, even as late as 1946 or 1947.
>But even that was only the beginning. During all of 1946 and 1947 the Western allies, faithful to Stalin, continued to turn over to him Soviet citizens, former soldiers as well as civilians. It did not really matter who they were as long as the West could get rid of this human confusion as quickly as possible.
Why you should listen:
You probably went through public school like me, so this urgently important part of history was not taught to you.
This book is 1984 before 1984 was written (it’s also nonfiction).
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 will be lost most of the time.
The full audio version is about an 80 hour adventure of dry listening. I suspect this will be fewer than 40 when I am finished.
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
Chapter 02 - The History of Our Sewage Disposal System: https://files.catbox.moe/3y8hwv.mp3
Chapter 03 - The Interrogation: https://files.catbox.moe/agp3dl.mp3
Chapter 04 – The Bluecaps: https://files.catbox.moe/takv7w.mp3
Chapter 05 – First Cell, First Love: https://files.catbox.moe/xd1u3r.mp3
**The Gulag Archipelago ABRIDGED**
**Chapter 06 – That Spring: https://files.catbox.moe/12a1lm.mp3**
I give my apologies to the no doubt often mispronounced Russian names and places. Additional apologies for sometimes mispronounced English words…
**This Chapter:**
The Russians had it so terrible under Stalin that several hundred thousand men allied themselves with Hitler to fight their Fatherland. When the Americans and British armies capture them, they send them right back into Stalin's loving arms.
I had to re-record the first quote below a few times because I kept laughing:
>>The democratic West simply could not understand: What do you mean when you call yourselves a political opposition? An opposition exists inside your country? Why has it never publicly declared its existence? If you are dissatisfied with Stalin, go back home and, in the first subsequent election, do not re-elect him. That would be the honest course.
>>The only soldier in the world who cannot surrender is the soldier of the world’s one and only Red Army. That’s what it says in our military statutes. (The Germans would shout at us from their trenches: “Ivan plen nicht!”—“Ivan no prisoner!”) Who can picture all that means? There is war; there is death—but there is no surrender! What a discovery! What it means is: Go and die; we will go on living. And if you lose your legs, yet manage to return from captivity on crutches, we will convict you.
>>Very few of the war prisoners returned across the Soviet border as free men, and if one happened to get through by accident because of the prevailing chaos, he was seized later on, even as late as 1946 or 1947.
>>But even that was only the beginning. During all of 1946 and 1947 the Western allies, faithful to Stalin, continued to turn over to him Soviet citizens, former soldiers as well as civilians. It did not really matter who they were as long as the West could get rid of this human confusion as quickly as possible.
Why you should listen:
- You probably went through public school like me, so this urgently important part of history was not taught to you.
- This book is 1984 before 1984 was written (it’s also nonfiction).
- 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 will be lost most of the time.
- The full audio version is about an 80 hour adventure of dry listening. I suspect this will be fewer than 40 when I am finished.
- 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
Chapter 02 - The History of Our Sewage Disposal System: https://files.catbox.moe/3y8hwv.mp3
Chapter 03 - The Interrogation: https://files.catbox.moe/agp3dl.mp3
Chapter 04 – The Bluecaps: https://files.catbox.moe/takv7w.mp3
Chapter 05 – First Cell, First Love: https://files.catbox.moe/xd1u3r.mp3
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