Memorable and interesting quotes from great books. ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, quote from The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books I-IIĮxistence by Abbi Glines About BookQuotersīookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, Here in camp, we have communism! Forward march, leader!'Īnd if it was 'communism,' then what was there for them to object to? That is what they had dedicated their lives to.” ' Your things you left at home!' some chief or other bellowed at them.

(Oh, this was no small thing! This was farewell to your former life-to your titles, your positions, and your arrogance!) 'Where are our things?' they cried. And the exit was through a different door, and after passing through it, they received back cotton breeches, field shirts, camp quilted jackets without pockets, and pigskin shoes. 'Go on in and don't worry.' And they did go in. 'Oh, come on now, who needs your things?' The bath personnel acted offended. 'And who is going to guard them?' the newcomers asked skeptically. “In addition, of course, they would be taken to a bath and in the bath vestibule they would be ordered to leave their leather coats, their Romanov sheepskin coats, their woolen sweaters, their suits of fine wool, their felt cloaks, their leather boots, their felt boots (for, after all, these were no illiterate peasants this time, but the Party elite-editors of newspapers, directors of trusts and factories, responsible officials in the provincial Party committees, professors of political economy, and, by the beginning of the thirties, all of them understood what good merchandise was).

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