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In Reply to: RE: An amazing and infuriating Russian documentary of Stalin's inner circle by posted by tinear on February 11, 2010 at 11:16:47
...something so powerful yet so distant that it hardly affects our lives - sort of like the SuperNova explosion. It is one thing to read about millions and millions of soldiers battling each other on the field, and another to have your husband, your parent disappear of come back a broken person. All those millions and millions are nothing else but millions of personal stories. To truly understand the scope and the size of some evil one has to delve into those small personal tragedies... then multiply them by hundreds of millions.
As intriguing as the memories of that old bastard might be, one should start his study with something far smaller, but whole lot more poignant - I would recommend either the One Day in Life of Ivan Denisovich, or Varlam Shalamov's short stories. THAT is where the truest, the most gripping horror lives.
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