This short book should be required reading for every high school student in The USA. Maybe they might not think that communism is not so bad.
I read Applebaum’s Gulag. A good 500+ pages as I remember. Interesting subject but it was so expansive I couldn’t read it all. I remember most Russians wanted to talk about something else rather than the author’s research. Like it’s time to move on. It was interesting that Stalin thought that prison could grow the Soviet Union even where it was geographically impossible. I sure wouldn’t mind dumping our illegal immigrant felons off in Siberia to jump start development there-slowly.