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Ep. 2: Dan Mahoney: Solzhenitsyn and the Gulag Archipelago Dan Mahoney

The Moral Imagination

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What Happened to People in the Soviet Camps?

Gulak: Solzhenitsyn believed that systematic mendacity was the defining trait of Soviet despotism. And in fact, persisted long after Stalin. He says conscience, justice, right and wrong have been displaced by quote, primary clichés. Gulak: One ideological cliché after another replaces the ordinary language of good and evil.

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