Book: The GULAG archipelago

An intellectual is one whose interests in the spiritual side of life are persistent and permanent, not forced by external circumstances and even in spite of them.

If only it were that easy! - that somewhere there are black people, maliciously doing black deeds, and you just need to distinguish them from the rest and destroy. But the line dividing good and evil crosses the heart of every person. And who will destroy a piece of his heart? ...

The simple truth, but it is necessary to suffer: blessed be no victory in wars, and defeat them! After victories I want more wins, after a defeat you want the freedom - and usually achieve it. Lesions need people, as the suffering and hardships we need a separate people: they are forced to deepen the inner life, to rise spiritually.

With Ukraine will be extremely painful. But be aware of their shared intensity now. Not just settled for centuries - then, fell to us to be prudent. We are obliged to give a decision by himself - Federalists and separatists, who from them will convince someone. Not to yield - madness and cruelty. And softer than tolerant than explanatory, we will now, the more hope to restore unity in future. Let her stay, I will. They will quickly sense that not all problems are solved by the Department.

In relation to myself, I was once again convinced that God works in mysterious ways. What ever we don't know what I want. And how many times in my life I passionately sought I do not need and despair from failures that were successes.

From the end of 1929 beginning of the famous gold rush, only running a fever, not those looking for gold but those from whom you shake it.

And there is nothing sacred during the search! When arrested, the locomotive driver Inosine in the room was the coffin with his dead child. The lawyers threw the child from the coffin, they were looking for there.

If Chekhov's intellectuals, all hadassim what will happen in twenty or thirty or forty years, would say that in forty years in Rus will torture a consequence, it will compress the skull with an iron ring, to lower the person in a bath of acid, naked and bound to torture ants, bed bugs, hot to drive on the Primus ramrod in anal hole (the"secret brand"), slowly crush the heel of the sexual parts, and in the form of the easy - to torture for a week insomnia, thirst and beat the bloody meat, no one would be the Chekhov play did not reach the end, all the heroes would have gone crazy.

It's so open and explained (Latsis, the newspaper "Red terror", November 1, 1918): "We are not waging war against individuals. We are exterminating the bourgeoisie as a class. Don't look for the investigation of materials and evidence that the accused acted in word or deed against the Soviets. The first question that you have to offer him, - to which class he belongs, what he origin, upbringing, education or profession. These questions should determine the fate of the accused. This is the meaning and essence of the red terror."

Article 58 consisted of fourteen points.
From the first paragraph we learn that the counter-revolutionary recognizes any action (under article 6 of the criminal code - and inaction) directed... to the weakening of the power...
If a wide interpretation were: refusal of the camp to go to work when you're hungry and exhausted - there is the weakening of the power. And entails - shot. (The shootings of objectors during the war.)

... We do not need to distinguish intent from the crimes and the superiority of Soviet legislation before the bourgeois!

And Preduralye, and prison years, I, too, have long believed that Stalin had given a fatal direction, during the Soviet period. But Stalin died quietly - and so much has changed the ship's course? What mark own, personal it gave to the events is dull stupidity, tyranny, glorification. But otherwise he just went to stop at a specified stop Lenin and by Trotsky.

The most important thing in life, all the mysteries of her - shall I pour you now?
Do not chase Ghost - property, titles: is profiting nerves decades, and is confiscated in one night.
Live with steady superiority over life - don't be put off by the troubles and not languishing at happiness. Still bitter after all, and not to the century of sweet and not full to the brim. Pretty with you if you don't freeze and if thirst and hunger don't claw you tear the innards... If you have not perishible ridge, walk both legs, bend both hands, seeing both eyes and both ears hear whom you envy? Envy of others, most of all eats us.
Wipe your eyes, clean heart, and above all, appreciate those who love you and who to you is. Do not hurt them, not rebuke.
Any of them keep fighting. After all, you don't know, maybe it's your last act, and so you will remain in their memory.

The highest achievement of the court: when Vice is so convicted, he recoils and a criminal.