“In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
I just bought this book. Though I am not looking forward to reading it, it must be done. I might also suggest reading the book “The Aquariums of Pyongyang”, if you have the stomach for it, which book is an absolutely harrowing story of communism at work.
Gee, I wonder why Hollywood hasn’t made a dozen films about it.
Snippet:
“…then I suddenly noticed his mouth. So that’s how they shut him up. They had stuffed it full of rocks.”