Solzhenitsyn's Moral Conundrum

Solzhenitsyn talks a lot in the Gulag Archipelago about see, he had a moral conundrum when he was in prison. He was trying to figure out how to treat other people who are imprisoned. The committed communists would enter the Gulag and they would still be in their morally superior phase,. That their incarceration was a mistake right? Solzhenitsyn: They weren't to be allied with until they broke and repented.