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The Gulag Archipelago Abridged Audiobook
I give my apologies to the no doubt often mispronounced Russian names and places. Additional apologies for sometimes mispronounced English words…
This Chapter:
>Lenin was feeling out new paths. In December, 1917, he suggested for consideration the following assortment of punishments: “confiscation of all property… confinement in prison, dispatch to the front and forced labor for all who disobey the existing law.
>And even while sitting peacefully among the fragrant hay mowings of Razliv and listening to the buzzing bumblebees, Lenin could not help but ponder the future penal system. Even then he had worked things out and reassured us: “The suppression of the minority of exploiters by the majority of the hired slaves of yesterday is a matter so comparatively easy, simple and natural, that it is going to cost much less in blood … will be much cheaper for humanity” than the preceding suppression of the majority by the minority.
>According to the estimates of émigré Professor of Statistics Kurganov, this “comparatively easy” internal repression cost us, from the beginning of the October Revolution up to 1959, a total of… sixty-six million—66,000,000—lives.
>In August, 1918, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin wrote in a telegram to Yevgeniya Bosh and to the Penza Provincial Executive Committee (they were unable to cope with a peasant revolt): “Lock up all the doubtful ones **
Part 2 - Perpetual Motion
**The Gulag Archipelago Abridged Audiobook**
**[Part 3 Chapter 01 - The Fingers of Aurora](https://files.catbox.moe/nxqmp5.mp3)**
I give my apologies to the no doubt often mispronounced Russian names and places. Additional apologies for sometimes mispronounced English words…
This Chapter:
>>Lenin was feeling out new paths. In December, 1917, he suggested for consideration the following assortment of punishments: “confiscation of all property… confinement in prison, dispatch to the front and forced labor for all who disobey the existing law.
>>And even while sitting peacefully among the fragrant hay mowings of Razliv and listening to the buzzing bumblebees, Lenin could not help but ponder the future penal system. Even then he had worked things out and reassured us: “The suppression of the minority of exploiters by the majority of the hired slaves of yesterday is a matter so comparatively easy, simple and natural, that it is going to cost much less in blood … will be much cheaper for humanity” than the preceding suppression of the majority by the minority.
>>According to the estimates of émigré Professor of Statistics Kurganov, this “comparatively easy” internal repression cost us, from the beginning of the October Revolution up to 1959, a total of… sixty-six million—66,000,000—lives.
>>In August, 1918, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin wrote in a telegram to Yevgeniya Bosh and to the Penza Provincial Executive Committee (they were unable to cope with a peasant revolt): “Lock up all the doubtful ones [not “guilty,” mind you, but doubtful—A.S.] in a concentration camp outside the city.” (And in addition “carry out merciless mass terror”—this was before the decree.)
>>Only on September 5, 1918, ten days after this telegram, was the Decree on the Red Terror published. In addition to the instructions on mass executions, it stated in particular: “Secure the Soviet Republic against its class enemies by isolating them in concentration camps.”
>>So that is where this term—concentration camps—was discovered and immediately seized upon and confirmed—one of the principal terms of the twentieth century, and it was to have a big international future!
**Part 1 The Prison Industry [All Chapters here](https://mega.nz/file/ZINSiB4D#OEaVqIGPXqVc-M-Eg3tWLqnBIkKyX62y45z9NTfs3N4)**
[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 2 - Perpetual Motion**
[Chapter 01 - The Ships of the Archipelago](https://files.catbox.moe/o38cv0.mp3)
[Chapter 02 - The Ports of the Archipelago](https://files.catbox.moe/7d8wqr.mp3)
[Chapter 03 - The Slave Caravans](https://files.catbox.moe/afkyia.mp3)
[Chapter 04 - From Island to Island](https://files.catbox.moe/f4vo9v.mp3)
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