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The Gulag Archipelago ABRIDGED
Part 6 Chapter 01 - Exile in the First Years of Freedom

I give my apologies to the no doubt often mispronounced Russian names and places. Additional apologies for sometimes mispronounced English words…

From this chapter:

"“It was decided to organize large-scale deportation of the families of bandits [i.e., “partisans”—A.S.]. Extensive concentration camps were organized, in which these families could be confined while waiting.”
Only the fact that it was so convenient to shoot people on the spot rather than carry them elsewhere, guard them and feed them on the way, resettle them and go on guarding them—only this delayed the introduction of a regular exile system until the end of War Communism. Soon after that, in 1922, a permanent Exile Commission was set up under the Commissariat of the Interior to deal with “socially dangerous persons.” Thus even in the early twenties exile was a familiar and smoothly operating institution.
Because people are so complacently gullible, the regime’s intentions dawned on them slowly: the regime was simply not strong enough yet to eradicate all the unwanted at once. So for the time being they were uprooted not from life itself, but from the memory of their fellows.”

"Exile was a temporary pen to hold sheep marked for slaughter."

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Translated by Thomas P. Whitney and Harry Willetts
Abridgement by Edward E. Ericson