Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quote
The Kolyma was the greatest and most famous island, the pole of ferocity of that amazing country of Gulag, which, though scattered in an archipelago geographically, was, in the psychological sense, fused into a continent — an almost invisible, almost imperceptible country inhabited by the Zek people.
The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 [1974, in translation], I, preface
