The Gulag brought out the worst in humanity from "summary" of The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
In the belly of the beast that is the Gulag, where humanity is stripped of all pretense and left raw and exposed, a darkness seeps into the soul of man. It is a darkness that festers and grows, feeding off the desperation and cruelty that permeate the camps. The Gulag does not discriminate; it preys on the weak and the strong alike, twisting them into monsters capable of unspeakable acts. In the frozen wastelands of Siberia, where the wind howls with the cries of the damned, humanity is reduced to its basest instincts. It becomes a battle for survival at any cost, where compassion and empathy are seen as weaknesses to be exploited. The Gulag breeds a culture of betrayal and treachery, where trust is a rare commodity and loyalty a fleeting illusion. Within the barbed wire fences that encircle the Gulag, the line between good and evil blurs until it is indistinguishable. The guards, once ordinary men, become sadistic tyrants drunk on power and devoid of mercy. The prisoners, driven to the brink of madness by the...
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