For if we forget the Gulag, sooner or later we will forget our own history too. Why did we fight the Cold War, after all? Was it because crazed right-wing politicians, in cahoots with the military-industrial complex and the CIA, invented the whole thing and forced two generations of Americans to go along with it? Or was there something more important happening?
- Anne Applebaum
“” “” Olga Gureyeva, was arrested at the end of 1945 after the Soviets took back the region from the Nazis. Aged 16 at the time, she was arrested with her family for supposed Nazi collaboration and, after repeated beatings during interrogation, sentenced to 20 years of hard labour.”” “”
She didn’t serve even ten years of her term. Did she?
All because Gulag was dismantled in 1950s, Stalinism condemned and Stalinists purged.
How any of that is relevant 70 years later?
Hogwash, the gulag archipelago is required reading in russian high schools.