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From Varlam Shalamov’s “Forty-Five Things I Learned in the Gulag,” in Paris Review via Kottke. 7. I saw that the only group of people able to preserve a minimum of humanity in conditions of starvation and abuse were the religious believers, the sectarians (almost all of them), and most priests. 8. Party workers and the militaryContinue reading “FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY EIGHT”