A blanket could be drenched in water, frozen, and then…

“Three prisoners in the gulag get to talking about why they are there. “I am here because I always got to work five minutes…

— Roy Medvedev

“I once went to a Russian restaurant called “Stalin’s Café.” All the items on the menu looked tempting, but after careful deliberation, I decided…

— Jarod Kintz

“I can't imagine any fairminded future person feeling there was an important moral difference between the Soviet gulag and the American one.”

— Benjamin Kunkel

“One might say that, until now, the social, cultural, and political framework for knowledge of the Gulag has not been in place. I first…

— Anne Applebaum

Left-wing zealots have often been prepared to ride roughshod over due process and basic considerations of fairness when they think they can get away…

— Margaret Thatcher

“And this man, who during three long decades had not once remembered that the world contains lilac bushes - and pansies, sandy garden paths,…

— Vasily Grossman

“To outsmart you they thought up work squads—but not squads like the ones outside the camps, where everyone is paid his separate wage. Everything…

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“In 1929 the leadership replaced institutions for long-term prisoners with work camps, designed to extract minerals in Siberia and other remote areas of the…

— David Priestland

I've been lucky enough to stand on both poles, but the place that seemed the remotest to me was Butugychag, a former gulag in…

— Michael Palin

If bones could freeze, then the brain could also be dulled and the soul could freeze over. And the soul shuddered and froze- perhaps…

— Varlam Shalamov

After reading The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander's stunning work of scholarship, one gains the terrible realization that, for people of color, the American…

— David Levering Lewis

“It was officially known as Kwan-li-so Number 18. That meant Penal Labor Colony in Korean. It was a concentration camp. It was a gulag.…

— David Baldacci

“My blissful childhood was shattered without warning when I was about ten years old. One day, my father told me that he had spent…

— Anonymous

“Oh, "what an intelligent, farsighted humane administration from top to bottom," as Supreme Court Judge Leibowitz of New York State wrote in Life magazine,…

— Alexander Solschenizyn

“...you are strong only as long as you don't deprive people of everything . For a person you've taken everything from is no longer…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn