“So immutably does a human being surrender to the mist of the Motherland! Just as a tooth will not stop aching until the nerve is killed, so is it with us; we shall probably not stop responding to the call of the the Motherland until we swallow arsenic.”
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn,
Архипелаг ГУЛАГ: 1918-1956: опыт художественного исследования
