They say that in order to understand this, you have to read Solzhenitsyn. When I was in school, I took The Gulag Archipelago out from the library, but I couldn’t get into it. It was this fat, boring book. I read about fifty pages and stopped… It seemed as distant from my reality as the Trojan War. Stalin was a played-out topic. My friends and I weren’t all that interested in him…
