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141. Foreword to The Gulag Archipelago: 50th Anniversary

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The End of the Soviet Experiment

Alexander solsnitzen was one of the precious few who did anticipate the demise of the soviet experiment. His writings delegitimized communism in his homeland and discredited it abroad. The twentieth century has proven, in quantitative terms at least, the most murderous in human history,. as governments killed their subjects at record rates. A poet's knowledge, he sees the man sees. Once a writer is an accomplice to all evil in his country, or by tanks and fatherland have stains forever bespattered the writer's face. If they abandon themselves to drugs or seize hostages, then this too is mingled with the fumes of debauchery. And if on some fateful...

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