Ideas should not be suppressed , but nor should they be worshipped . Kennan was right to call " gulag " a powerful indictment of a regime .
思想不应该被压制,也不应该被崇拜,凯南将“古拉格”成为对一个政体的强有力的控告也没错。
The gulag 's captives are not told of their crimes , though torture usually produces a " confession " - which might admit to defacing an image of the " great leader " or listening to a foreign broadcast .
The author outlines with exemplary clarity lenin 's cruelty , his illegal and brutal seizure of power , his glee in ordering executions , the institution of mass terror as a means of political control and the construction of the first camps in what later became the gulag .
For a proof you can go to the gulag exhibition in the moscow museum devoted to photography falsification in the epoch of stalin . It 's called " the commissar vanishes " , though not only commissars used to disappear and not on photos only ..