Karmologyclinic's Reviews > The Gulag Archipelago, VOLUME 3: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Section V-VII

What can I say about Gulag Archipelago that has never been told before. Answer: nothing. It requires a big time investment to go through all the three books but it is worth every minute you invest in it.
It is easy to read as a text but difficult to read as context.
It is a great reminder to what can happen when the system overgrows, morally, the person. When the system does that, humanity fades to extinction. And, if you are first to blame communism for that, I'd have to hyperlink you to (obviously) nazism and Hitler, the Southern Korea regime (yes, southern) portrayed at Human Acts, modern Greek history, Abu Ghraib etc.
In Solzhenitsyn' Archipelago you can even find that the methods are the same. Keep people scared, invent a war or an enemy and you have stolen some (or all) of their humanity to your advantage. The examples are countless really.
It is a story that needed to be told to become history. And everybody should read it.