![]() ![]() Russian's don't really acknowledge the atrocities. Sadly, unlike NAZI death capms, Gulag camps were never turned into museums and historical sites. Non imprisoned citizens were treated in the same, just much milder, manner. I was born and raised in USSR, so to me this story is not shocking. Non Soviet Citizens, You Need To Know This! Publication of the book split the Communist hierarchy, and it was Premier Khrushchev himself who read the book and personally allowed its publication. Within a week, Solzhenitsyn was no longer an obscure math teacher, but an international celebrity. ![]() Within 24 hours, all 95,000 copies of the magazine containing this story were sold out. ![]() ![]() In 1962, the Soviet literary magazine Novy Mir published a short novel by an unknown writer named Solzhenitsyn. Along with millions of others, this soldier was charged with some sort of political crime, and since it was easier to confess than deny it and die, Ivan Denisovich "confessed" to "high treason" and received a sentence of 10 years in a Siberian labor camp. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich brilliantly portrays a single day, any day, in the life of a single Russian soldier who was captured by the Germans in 1945 and who managed to escape a few days later. Solzhenitsyn’s startling book led, almost 30 years later, to Glasnost, Perestroika, and the "Fall of the Wall". ![]()
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