Ep. 82: Truth in the Gulag
Young Heretics
Spencer Klavan
4.9 ā¢ 4.5K Ratings
šļø 8 December 2021
ā±ļø 64 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Young Heretics, Spencer Klavan begins a journey through Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, "The Gulag Archipelago," which exposed the horrors of Lenin's and Stalin's Russia to the West. Describing how Russia's Empire was overthrown and replaced with a socialist state, Spencer explains the nightmare philosophy behind it all and reveals what really made Stalin's rule so gruesome.
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| 0:00.0 | The courts must not ban terror. To promise that would be deception or self-deception. |
| 0:08.7 | But must formulate the motives underlying it, legalize it as a principle plainly without any |
| 0:17.0 | make-believe or embellishment. It must be formulated in the broadest possible manner for only |
| 0:24.3 | revolutionary law and revolutionary conscience can more or less widely determine the limits within |
| 0:32.6 | which it should apply. With communist greetings, Vladimir Lenin. |
| 0:43.0 | As you've probably gathered, these next couple episodes are going to get pretty heavy. We're going to |
| 0:47.8 | be talking about the horrors of the Soviet Union as reported by the great Soviet dissident Alexander |
| 0:53.9 | Solcheneetsen. Before we leap into the murders and the intrigues and the torture and the interrogation, |
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| 1:44.3 | until Christmas. Okay, let's get back into this letter from Lenin to Kursky. The great Soviet |
| 1:50.8 | dissidents, Alexander, Solchenesen writes in the Gulag Archipelago that before a letter like this, |
| 1:57.2 | one must simply remain in contemplative silence. I'm going to read parts of it again to you, |
| 2:04.5 | because if you just are coming at it for the first time, maybe its implications aren't |
| 2:09.2 | entirely clear. One of the things about Soviet and socialist writings is that you have to kind |
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