This is a continuation of my reading of Victor Herman’s book, Coming Out Of The Ice, An Unexpected Life, out of print for some time. Just a reminder of why I am doing this. I consider this book to be extremely important, because it is a glimpse into what we can expect if we do not resist the oncoming tyranny. Victor Herman, in discussing his experiences in the Soviet gulag emphasized: “Don’t think it can’t happen here.” And, it is now happening here.
The series begins here.
Sitting in one position for hours, days, weeks, months on end, with your eyes fixed on one spot, not able to talk, not able to turn your head, not able to move, only rising to relieve yourself in a stinking pot of human excrement - that must be labeled torture. And yet, in this chapter Victor describes it as paradise. What could be so worse that Victor would yearn for the “position” and that would cause him to experience for the rest of his life enormous grief at the sight of a pencil?
In this chapter Victor tells of another Victor Herman who was created one night, and who existed for the next 18 years in the grip of the Soviet gulag system.
The reading is here. As always, I hope you appreciate Victor’s words.