How one man escaped from a North Korean prison camp

Re:How one man escaped from a North Korean prison camp by onezeno on Monday January 21, 2013 @04:16PM (#5093802)

I'm reading the Gulag Archipelago right now. In it he says that many Russian authorities were actually relieved when they read Ivan Denisovich, because the all new of prison camps with conditions far worse than those depicted in the novel.

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Re:How one man escaped from a North Korean prison camp by sfont on Monday January 21, 2013 @11:31PM (#5095528)

Indeed the conditions described in the novel were more unpleasant than horrid (if I remember right). My favorite section though was regarding day light savings time. Ivan estimates the time based on the position of the sun and is corrected by one of his fellow inmates that high noon is no longer noon as per "Soviet Decree."

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Re:How one man escaped from a North Korean prison camp by lostlogin on Monday January 21, 2013 @08:41PM (#5094997)

Gulag by Anna Applebaum is a good gulag history too.

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