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Interestingly, i read applebaums gulag book in the early 2010s, it didnt make me an anticommunist, it did give me plenty of tips to get by when imprisoned, and in hindsight it did confirm that yes many of the people in prison were there for a reason
Why were there so many ukranians there Anne? Why didn't that ever come up?
I've read lots of anti soviet work in my time, and when you actually give it the time of day, it tends to come down to nonsense like 'there were too many lesbians in the gulag, they were disgusting, women bad', at least Applebaum was a little subtler than that
I read One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in the late 2000s, and it really didn't seem that bad. Almost an odd sort of comedy.