You are the first person online to ever mention Solzhenitsyn to me. I read all of his books. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is my favorite. Russian literature is a particular specialty of mine. While I read those books with knowledge that he lived though those events, I never put it into a wider perspective until this last decade where I see that this was all going on way before I came into being. Someone, maybe you, mentioned Devil's Island. I looked it up. Papillion. Not an accident that the book was written and a movie was made. These were way before me but I found a hard copy of the book once at a second hand bookstore and bought it. Later, a guy who was much older asked me what I knew about the story and told me a lot from his perspective. I see now that's part of the game. Roll out these "stories" "films" "books" and fly the consequences of what they did and continue to do but make people process it almost like fantasy. So bizarre. I totally agree with everything you said. WWII was not about allied forces for sure. And yes, they moved from Russia to China and the level of horror should compel everyone to action or at the very least, haunt them every waking second.