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The Gulag Archipelago ABRIDGED Audiobook
Part 2 Chapter 1 - The Ships of the Archipelago: https://files.catbox.moe/o38cv0.mp3
I give my apologies to the no doubt often mispronounced Russian names and places. Additional apologies for sometimes mispronounced English words…
While Part 1 is about how this all happens, Part 2 of this book our beginning jaunt into the meat grinder from hell; when it starts to get really "good" in a terrible way. Chapter 1 of this part is one of my favorites. Solzhenitsyn's dry humor while describing, well, torture, certainly makes the book easier to swallow when they become a bit dark.
>According to the calculations of nonprisoner engineers, six people can sit on the bottom bunks of a Stolypin compartment, and another three can lie on the middle ones (which are joined in one continuous bunk, except for the space cut out beside the door for climbing up and getting down), and two more can lie on the baggage shelves above. Now if, in addition to these eleven, eleven more are pushed into the compartment (the last of whom are shoved out of the way of the door by the jailers’ boots as they shut it), then this will constitute a normal complement for a Stolypin prisoners’ compartment. Two huddle, half-sitting, on each of the upper baggage shelves; another five lie on the joined middle level (and they are the lucky ones—these places are won in battle, and if there are any prisoners present from the underworld companionship of thieves—the blatnye—then it is they who are lying there); and this leaves thirteen down below: five sit on each of the bunks and three are in the aisle between their legs. Somewhere, mixed up with the people, on the people and under the people, are their belongings. And that is how they sit, their crossed legs wedged beneath them, day after day.
>No, it isn’t done especially to torture people. A sentenced prisoner is a laboring soldier of socialism, so why should he be tortured? They need him for construction work. But, after all, you will agree he is not off on a jaunt to visit his mother-in-law, and there is no reason in the world to treat him so well that people out in freedom would envy him. We have problems with our transportation: he’ll get there all right, and he won’t die on the way either.
OBEY
>No one, no one at all, ever set out to torture us on purpose! The convoy’s actions were quite reasonable! But, like the ancient Christians, we sat there in the cage while they poured salt on our raw and bleeding tongues.
All Part 1 Chapters:
Introduction: https://files.catbox.moe/73kxit.mp3
Chapter 01 - Arrest: https://files.catbox.moe/ep8du7.mp3
Chapter 02 - The History of Our Sewage Disposal System: https://files.catbox.moe/3y8hwv.mp3
Chapter 03 - The Interrogation: https://files.catbox.moe/agp3dl.mp3
Chapter 04 – The Bluecaps: https://files.catbox.moe/takv7w.mp3
Chapter 05 – First Cell, First Love: https://files.catbox.moe/xd1u3r.mp3
Chapter 06 – That Spring: https://files.catbox.moe/12a1lm.mp3
Chapter 07 – In the Engine Room: https://files.catbox.moe/zej3kp.mp3
Chapter 08 - The Law as a Child: https://files.catbox.moe/qhyhws.mp3
Chapter 09 - The Law Becomes a Man: https://files.catbox.moe/cw5kat.mp3
Chapter 10 - The Law Matures: https://files.catbox.moe/m2z2dx.mp3
Chapter 11 - The Supreme Measure: https://files.catbox.moe/ug4zk6.mp3
Chapter 12 - Tyurzak: https://files.catbox.moe/syxsac.mp3
Part 1 (Chapters 1-12): https://mega.nz/file/ZINSiB4D#OEaVqIGPXqVc-M-Eg3tWLqnBIkKyX62y45z9NTfs3N4
**The Gulag Archipelago ABRIDGED Audiobook**
**Part 2 Chapter 1 - The Ships of the Archipelago: https://files.catbox.moe/o38cv0.mp3**
I give my apologies to the no doubt often mispronounced Russian names and places. Additional apologies for sometimes mispronounced English words…
While Part 1 is about *how* this all happens, Part 2 of this book our beginning jaunt into the meat grinder from hell; when it starts to get really "good" in a terrible way. Chapter 1 of this part is one of my favorites. Solzhenitsyn's dry humor while describing, well, torture, certainly makes the book easier to swallow when they become a bit dark.
>>According to the calculations of nonprisoner engineers, six people can sit on the bottom bunks of a Stolypin compartment, and another three can lie on the middle ones (which are joined in one continuous bunk, except for the space cut out beside the door for climbing up and getting down), and two more can lie on the baggage shelves above. Now if, in addition to these eleven, eleven more are pushed into the compartment (the last of whom are shoved out of the way of the door by the jailers’ boots as they shut it), then this will constitute a normal complement for a Stolypin prisoners’ compartment. Two huddle, half-sitting, on each of the upper baggage shelves; another five lie on the joined middle level (and they are the lucky ones—these places are won in battle, and if there are any prisoners present from the underworld companionship of thieves—the blatnye—then it is they who are lying there); and this leaves thirteen down below: five sit on each of the bunks and three are in the aisle between their legs. Somewhere, mixed up with the people, on the people and under the people, are their belongings. And that is how they sit, their crossed legs wedged beneath them, day after day.
>>No, it isn’t done especially to torture people. A sentenced prisoner is a laboring soldier of socialism, so why should he be tortured? They need him for construction work. But, after all, you will agree he is not off on a jaunt to visit his mother-in-law, and there is no reason in the world to treat him so well that people out in freedom would envy him. We have problems with our transportation: he’ll get there all right, and he won’t die on the way either.
*OBEY*
>>No one, no one at all, ever set out to torture us on purpose! The convoy’s actions were quite reasonable! But, like the ancient Christians, we sat there in the cage while they poured salt on our raw and bleeding tongues.
**All Part 1 Chapters:**
Introduction: https://files.catbox.moe/73kxit.mp3
Chapter 01 - Arrest: https://files.catbox.moe/ep8du7.mp3
Chapter 02 - The History of Our Sewage Disposal System: https://files.catbox.moe/3y8hwv.mp3
Chapter 03 - The Interrogation: https://files.catbox.moe/agp3dl.mp3
Chapter 04 – The Bluecaps: https://files.catbox.moe/takv7w.mp3
Chapter 05 – First Cell, First Love: https://files.catbox.moe/xd1u3r.mp3
Chapter 06 – That Spring: https://files.catbox.moe/12a1lm.mp3
Chapter 07 – In the Engine Room: https://files.catbox.moe/zej3kp.mp3
Chapter 08 - The Law as a Child: https://files.catbox.moe/qhyhws.mp3
Chapter 09 - The Law Becomes a Man: https://files.catbox.moe/cw5kat.mp3
Chapter 10 - The Law Matures: https://files.catbox.moe/m2z2dx.mp3
Chapter 11 - The Supreme Measure: https://files.catbox.moe/ug4zk6.mp3
Chapter 12 - Tyurzak: https://files.catbox.moe/syxsac.mp3
Part 1 (Chapters 1-12): https://mega.nz/file/ZINSiB4D#OEaVqIGPXqVc-M-Eg3tWLqnBIkKyX62y45z9NTfs3N4
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