The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Krylenko has this to say about informing, which in those days had a different label: “For ourselves, we see nothing shameful in it, we consider this to be our duty . . . the work itself is not disgraceful; once a person admits that this work is necessary in the interests of the Revolution, then he must do it.”35