Can’t disagree with you there. I think the hammer and sickle should be as repulsive as the nazi swastika. I just happened to recently listen to Man’s Search for Meaning and found it gave me hope we could get through this. Gulag Archipelago is on my reading list, but I have heard it’s extremely long and for anyone already awake, could cause more despair than hope. I’m already aware of the dangers of tyranny/communism/socialism, so I don’t need a deeper look into the living hell those people went through. It is, however, vital to understand this very old playbook that was put into action then and now again, so this is not meant to discourage reading that as well. Read both and draw your own conclusions.