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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We forget everything. What we remember is not what actually happened, not history, but merely that hackneyed dotted line they have chosen to drive into our memories by incessant hammering.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago (1973), Part I: The Prison Industry, Ch. 8 “The Law as a Child.”

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