Just Thinking Out Loud

Are things beginning to turn around in our historical journey into Stalin's gulag camps of Russia? Timestamps and sources/credits are below. 00:00 Intro PART V Katorga 04:17 Chapter 1 - The Doomed 10:55 Chapter 2 - The First Whiff of Revolution 13:25 Chapter 3 - Chains, Chains ... 16:50 Chapter 4 - Why Did We Stand For It? 20:43 Chapter 5 - Poetry Under a Tombstone, Truth Under a Stone 25:30 Chapter 6 - The Committed Escaper 32:23 Chapter 7 - The White Kitten (Georgi Tenno's Tale) 46:43 Chapter 8 - Escapes--Morale and Mechanics 52:29 Chapter 9 - The Kids with Tommy Guns 58:25 Chapter 10 - Behind the Wire the Ground is Burning 1:02:05 Chapter 11 - Tearing at the Chains 1:08:55 Chapter 12 - The Forty Days of Kengir 1:15:44 Overall comments - Hypocrisy, counterintuitive economics, random fact about me (related to rebellions) 1:19:56 Tenno's story, public support of escapees, personal decisions under pressure, informers 1:24:35:35 Solzhenitsyn's writing, social disconnect (my constant social media comment) Sour