"In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations."
- Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Gulag is one of those books that shatters you, but gives one such an understanding of type of courage that is needed.
I suggest "we the living" ayn rand, as a compliment for the time period.
Valid observation...
...if we had a "legitimate" education system, it would be required reading....