One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Imagine putting your children to bed for the night, then walking to your bedroom and kissing your wife goodnight. You fall asleep for the night into a deep REM sleep. You have it all, a wife, a family, a home, life is pretty decent. Jackbooted thugs awake you by knocking down your bedroom door, and now you are very disoriented and confused. Are you still dreaming? Have you been sleeping for three hours or thirty minutes? The Jews’ henchmen start making accusations about you. Now they are referring to you as a traitor to the state. Your life flashes before your eyes as they detain you. They subsequently take you into a system that you know you may never get out of, that is if you end up surviving.

We are living under Jewish hegemony in North America, as well as all European countries, and down under. Our political systems and governments, and I use the term ‘our’ very loosely, are becoming increasingly Sovietized. The Jews are certainly ruling over us, but they are not as brazen as they once were in the Soviet Union, especially before the establishment of the Jewish bandit state of Israel. Many tactics that were employed in the former Jewish Soviet Union we are seeing in our own countries, after they have been subverted by the Jewish gangsters who usurped the power to begin with. One example of this is the enforcement of ‘Political Correctness’. We all are well aware that anyone who does not toe the party line is subsequently bullied into an ignominious public apology, that is if he or she has no backbone.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a writer and a historian who defied the Jewish led Soviet Union, and consequently ended up in the hard-labor Gulag system of camps. Solzhenitsyn was a celebrated novelist and short story writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn had first-hand experience with the horrors of the Gulag camp system, having been imprisoned from 1945 to 1953 for writing derogatory comments about the nominal figurehead of the Soviet Union at the time, Joseph Stalin. Solzhenitsyn most notably has written the Gulag Archipelago in three parts describing in great detail what really went on in these ‘work camps’.

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich was first published in November 1962 in the Soviet literary magazine Novy Mir (New World). The novel takes place in the Soviet labor camp system in the 1950s and tells the story of the protagonist Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, whom is meant to be the archetype of a prisoner in those camps at that time. We see first-hand what life is like through the eyes of this very ordinary prisoner. We come to understand that when one is confined to an oppressive system like the Gulag, an extra piece of bread at supper or simply returning to your bed at nighttime can be all that you have to look forward to.

This is a very well written short novel, that I think is a very beneficial read for our people. This book is a little over 150 pages, and the copy I have includes a nice introduction by Yevgeny Yevtushenko, as well as an afterword by Eric Bogosian. This book will not paint a detailed picture of the day to day horror of life in the Jewish Soviet camps like Gulag Archipelago did so well, but nevertheless it gives us a good idea of what an average day is like for a prisoner of any system. We should pay close attention to the world around us, because we may one day be in the shoes of Ivan Denisovich Shukhov. I recommend this book as supplemental reading material to our people, but his seminal book Gulag Archipelago should be required reading for all of our people. If you do not read all three parts of this very important tome, please do yourself a favor, and at the very least read an abridged version.

Michael Jeffrey