I've been lucky enough to stand on both poles, but the…

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

“...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

If Marx was alive during the Stalinist period, he'd be first to be in the gulag.

— John McDonnell

From the Soviet gulag to the Nazi concentration camps and the killing fields of Cambodia, history teaches that granting the state legal authority to…

— Pete du Pont

“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

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

“Leave it to the Russians to have an angel gulag.”

— Verlaine