We have to condemn publicly the very idea that some people have the right to repress others. In keeping with the laws of nature, a new continent of truth has been opened up for us, namely, that violence can only be concealed by the lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably compelled to choose the lie as his principle.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Modern

Gulag Archipelago

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1970

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