Quote by Benjamin Kunkel

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

— Verlaine

“In the Gulag Archipelago there are no heroes or villains. No prince or pauper. It is the most democratic of all societies. Everyone is…

— Kati Marton

“* *Do remember that dishonesty and cowardice always have to be paid for.*Don’t imagine that for years on end you can make yourself the…

— George Orwell

“The Soviet regime robbed people not only of their ability to live freely but also of the ability to understand fully what had been…

— Masha Gessen

“There are two kinds of prison in the gulag. One is for prisoners sentenced to ‘revolutionary re-education through labour’. If they survive their punishment…

— Hyeonseo Lee

“I hated life in the Soviet Union. You had to pretend something you didn't feel.”

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives.

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

“Every time this happened, some arbitrarily chosen scapegoats were punished for overzealousness in carrying out the old policy. These were circumstances that encouraged fatalism…

— Sheila Fitzpatrick

“He who does not regret the breakup of the Soviet Union has no heart. He who wants to revive it in its previous form…

— Michael Rank

“And so this is where the post Cold War has brought us: to the recognition that the very totalitarism that we fought against in…

— Robert D. Kaplan

“Americans talked about voters the same way Russians talked about Stalin. They had to be obeyed.”

— Ken Follett

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

— John McDonnell