#74 - The Ascent

Picture this: you get arrested for no apparent reason. You tell yourself that it must be a mistake and it'll get sorted out, but before you know it you're being tortured into a confession for political crimes, and you're off to work in a labour camp for 10 years.It may horrify you to know that this is not fiction, but rather historical fact for millions of Russian citizens during the Soviet Union. Solzhenitsyn documents it quite well in "The Gulag Archipelago". He also documents the spiritual...