Called Out from the Gulag
In 1945, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was dragged from the front lines of World War II and sentenced to eight years in Soviet labor camps for privately...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on John 11:1-45.
In 1945, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was dragged from the front lines of World War II and sentenced to eight years in Soviet labor camps for privately criticizing Stalin. The Gulag was designed to bury men alive — freezing barracks, starvation rations, backbreaking labor. Then came cancer. His doctors gave him no hope. By every human measure, he was a dead man.…
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