The fact that people could be so evil, its such a foreign concept to me I guess, like I knew there were serial killers and sadistic torturers out there, but just learning about the history of the soviet union, how they put so much effort into making things look fine, when they’re actually not. Its one thing to affect an individual’s life with an act, but to infuse that view on the entire world, doesn’t that narcissism and self-deception, even with good intentions, not shake your soul to the very core?
Yes it’s horrific ofc….but imo every country has a dark chapter in its history: Germany had the Nazis, Soviet Union had the Gulags, India had large scale communal riots & violence, Rwanda had their infamous genocide & South Africa had Apartheid
Ofc that doesn’t excuse any of their actions, but I think it’s kinda necessary to read books like that to yk…know how low some humans would stoop