Leo Tolstoi

 Leo Tolstoi

Leo Tolstoi was a Russian writer that was able to write important books about the importance of civility and morality. Leo Tolstoi lived in the time period of Fyodor Dostoevsky and about the time that Lenin and Trotsky were writing their lies about socialism. Leo Tolstoi was an individual that wrote about the importance of having integrity and morality. I have not read books on Tolstoi yet have learned about specific themes and ideas that he talked about. Leo Tolstoi was not a proponent of socialism and is among the Russian writers that composed interesting themes about the importance of civility and morality.

Among the important topics that Leo Tolstoi wrote about includes the Anna Karenina principle that describes the manner that feminists are negative. Leo Tolstoi probably wrote the Anna Karenina principle after feminist women and not righteous women. We have read stories about how both men and women are able to persevere being righteous. This is not about the biological sex of a person and actually about practicing integrity instead of envy and sin. Leo Tolstoi describes the Anna Karenina principle describing how socialist feminists think. The Anna Karenina principle states that if a feminist woman is being courted for a relationship, they will look at the positive qualities and attributes, yet will not appreciate all the qualities unless a man has all the qualities. This describes how feminism teaches women to not have gratitude and instead be negative concerning multiple things. Feminism does not look to help women and instead looks to lead them to negative emotions, envy, ingratitude, and the practice of sin. 

The Anna Karenina principle states that if a man were to have nine out of ten qualities, the feminist would not appreciate the positive qualities and instead only focus on the quality that is lacking. This means that instead of appreciating the nine positive qualities, the feminist would care greater about the positive quality that is lacking. This describes how feminists see things through a negative lens. This is interesting since Leo Tolstoi wrote about this in the late 1800s. We learn that Leo Tolstoi was speaking truth because in our times we have seen the manner that socialism and feminism have attempted to cause idolatrous women to practice idol worship, sin, and envy. We have seen multiple examples of feminist women who decided to be adulterous (although in these times it is probably called polyamorism. We learn that not only women practice idol worship because there are also male idolatrous adulterers understanding that idolatry leads to adultery.) However, the important point is to flee idolatry and adultery.

We have seen in the past decade how marxist feminism has caused difficulties for societies because of the negativity and envy that results from idolatry. Leo Tolstoi described the importance of practicing integrity so that society can be stable. We have learned from the previous decade how post-modern society has devolved due to envy, coveting, hate, anger, resentments, and bitterness from idol worship. We can persevere seeing the positive of everything and know that these are not the best of times to start a relationship or have a family. We can be grateful to know that we can be far apart from idolators, adultresses, and adulterers that attempt to lead to sin and idol worship. We can understand that we can persevere being positive and grateful for the favor and blessings that we have instead of negative and envious. We can also choose to avoid false prophets, adultresses, adulterers, and idolators who want other people to also be discouraged, envious, and bitter. 

Grigory Ivanovich Grigoryev

 Grigory Ivanovich Grigoryev

“Grigory Ivanovich, who was no longer young, grew stronger in camp; his earlier rheumatism of the joints disappeared completely, and he became particularly healthy after the typhus from which he recovered: in winter he went out in cotton sacks, making holes in them for his head and his hands- and he did not catch a cold! So wouldn't it be more correct to say that no camp can corrupt those who have a stable nucleus.”- (page 318–319)

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn has interesting stories about righteous Christian individuals who decided to persevere in Soviet Russia without being corrupted. We learn that Grigory was an older individual who had decided to remain loyal to his conscience being able to work hard rather than take the easy way out. We learn that Grigory would decide to work hard jobs in gulag rather than the easy jobs in exchange for becoming corrupt. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, having been a Lenin socialist in the past, initially could not understand how righteous individuals could actually thrive and prosper despite the adversity. Righteous individuals decided to be righteous rather than corrupt and improved despite opposition from the socialists. Such is the story of Grigory.

Grigory was a soil scientist who volunteered for the People's Volunteer Corps. He was taken prisoner by the Germans and spent time in a German camp. He was allowed to return to Russia and was sent to gulag by the Soviet Bolsheviks for having been captured by the Germans. We learn that the Soviet Bolsheviks instead of helping their returning brethren from the POW camps, they decided to send them to gulag. In gulag, he was approached by Soviet Bolsheviks to recruit him to be an informant. Grigory denied the idea of becoming an informant and was sent to a penalty camp. Grigory decided to persevere with hard work in gulag rather than get a soft job being an informant falsely accussing fellow Russians.

He was later offered the opportunity to be a brigadier, an individual that was in charge of leading the gulag workers yet also required berating and being hostile to others. Grigory decided against such position and decided to till the land and scythe with enthusiasm. He worked hard and kept persevering. He was then moved to be the work checker of a quarry and refused to be given that position because he would have to fabricate information. It was common that the work reports of gulag were heavily falsified and fabricated. There were instances when a large number of people died from freezing cold weather in different camps, and the work reporters who reported the work of gulag would write that no one died. The amount of work taking place in gulag also was falsified. Grigory did not want to speak lies and instead negated that work assignment. Grigory decided to break rocks along with other gulag individuals rather than speak lies.

He was allowed to process the potatoes and vegetables with the vegetable storeroom brigade, and never stole. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn described that it was very common that individuals would steal from the storeroom because the food given in gulag was minimal, not nutritious, and also did not contain the calories required to sustain individuals in the sub-arctic weather. Grigory did not steal anything despite there being the opportunity to. Despite the adversity, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn described that Grigory actually improved and became better with time. He became stronger, grew healthier, and even could work in freezing weather without developing a cold. Initially, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn could not believe how individuals could persevere with such zealous integrity, yet became aware that the worship of GOD Almighty is how individuals can persevere despite everything. 

Motya

 Motya

“Adamova-Sliozberg has a moving story about meeting a girl called Motya, who was jailed in 1936 for leaving her place of banishment without permission to go to her native village, Svetlovidovo near Tarussa, two thousand kilometers on foot! Sportsmen are given medals for that sort of thing. She had been exiled with her parents in 1929 when she was a little schoolgirl, and deprived of schooling forever. Her teacher's pet name for her was, 'Motya, our little Edison': the child was not only an excellent pupil, but had an inventive turn of mind, had rigged up a sort of turbine worked by a stream, and invented other things for the school. After seven years she felt an urge just to look once more at the log walls of her unattainable school- and for that 'little Edison' went to gulag and then to camp.’”- (page 426)

We learn in the Gulag Archipelago that there were children and adolescents who decided to resist and fight against socialism keeping their faith in GOD Almighty. We learn that there were cases where the Soviet Bolsheviks had envy against children and adolescents seen in the stories of Zoya and Shurka. We learn that socialism does not look to help the elders, adults, and children and instead attempts to lead to the practice of sin and vices. We learn that Motya was another individual that was envied by the Soviet Bolsheviks.

In the story of Motya, we learn that the child's parents were exiled and because of their exile, Motya was prevented from going to school. We learn that Motya was able to learn in the village where they were exiled, and be an extraordinary child who was able to create innovations. The Soviet Bolsheviks had decided to prevent Motya from going to school due to the parent's exile. Amidst the obvious incongruency of socialism that states that it wants to “improve the lives of the working class”, we learn that it did not actually speak truth.

We learned that Motya was able to create a turbine and created other inventions. She was named by her teacher in the village, 'little Edison,’ after the well known inventor Thomas Alva Edison. We learn that Motya was able to keep learning in the village of exile. She decided to go to see the walls of the school of her village that she was not allowed to go to due to her parent's exile. She walked for more than two thousand kilometers on foot and reached the school. We learn that for choosing to go see the school, Motya was sent to gulag. This describes the envy that exists in socialism where Soviet Bolsheviks do not like the manner that individuals can improve themselves through learning, increasing virtues, and developing maturity.

The Soviet Bolshevik socialists had envy of Motya for being able to be inventive and quite extraordinary. She was able to persevere despite the attempts of Soviet Bolsheviks to prevent her from learning. We learn that this describes the discrepencies between the temporary lies that socialism states and the truth that describes how socialism does not help anyone. We are able to read about other stories where the Soviet Bolsheviks did not like competition and individuals improving themselves by building two story houses where there were rows of one story houses or brick houses where there were log houses. Essentially, there was no reason and no logic towards the envy of the socialists because it was all arbitrary, authoritarian, totalitarian, and due to negative emotions describing anger, hate, envy, and coveting. Christianity instructs on the need to remove and avoid such emotions that do not help anyone. 

Shurka Dmitriyev

 Shurka Dmitriyev

“Take Shurka Dmitriyev, from the village of Masleno. He was thirteen when his father, Fyodor, died in 1925, and the only son in a family of girls. Who was to manage his father's holding? Shurka took it on. The girls and the mother accepted him as head of the family. A working peasant and an adult now.. He was a worthy successor to his hard-working father, and when 1929 came his bins were full of grain. Obviously a kulak! The whole family was driven out!”- (page 426)

We learned about the Gulag Archipelago written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn about elders, adults, adolescents, and children who resisted and fought against the temporary lies of socialism. We learned about how children and adolescents were also able to fight against the indoctrination that the Soviet Union attempted to cause against children. We learn about the example of Zoya who decided to not be indoctrinated in socialism describing how she would not be a thief nor be corrupted by socialism when she was placed in an orphanage far from her family members. We learned about how she resisted socialism by choosing to worship GOD Almighty above everything.

Even when there was persecution for denying socialism, Zoya persevered with unchanging devotion to GOD Almighty without disobedience to the commandments of Moses. We learn that Zoya persevered without practicing sin and iniquity despite her young age. There were other stories of children and adolescents who did not give in to the indoctrination of the Soviet socialists. Shurka was another individual that chose to be responsible and persevere with valor, honor, and goodness. Shurka decided to take over the head of the household position when his father, Fyodor died. We learn that Shurka took on the responsibility and decided to work being a farmer raising grain and wheat from the land. Shurka at the age of thirteen decided to be responsible and worked hard to sustain his family by working hard in the land.

Because Shurka was able to persevere and kept working hard having his bins full of grain and wheat, the Soviet Bolsheviks decided to persecute Shurka and his family. We learn that the Soviet Bolsheviks in 1928 decided to persecute the farm workers because they were self-sufficient, industrious, righteous, and wanted to know nothing of the temporary lies of socialism. Shurka being an adolescent decided to be responsible and work hard. We learn that the Soviet Bolsheviks probably did not like Shurka because of his industrious work ethic at such a young age. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn described that Shurka and his family were driven out of the land meaning that the Soviet Bolsheviks decided to steal from an industrious and self-sufficient adolescent. We learn that Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn described that the Soviet socialists hated the elderly because they were adamant and resolute in their faith, the adults because of their valor and courage not believing the lies and deceit of socialism, and the children and adolescents because Christianity allows individuals to improve themselves and their descendants.

There are multiple stories that describe the incongruencies of Soviet socialism that only wants to stifle the freedom and autonomy that exists. We learn in the Gulag Archipelago about how even children and adolescents understood this knowing that socialism did not look to help anyone. We can learn to keep persevering despite the persecution, adversity, and envy. We learn that righteous individuals were able to persevere in the Soviet Union trusting in GOD Almighty, and Christian individuals persevered. We know that the Soviet Union did not persevere and collapsed in the 1990s because of innumerable reasons already mentioned. We learn that Christianity has kept being preached in Russia and different nations so much so that there are a greater number of churches in Russia describing the Orthodox, Catholic, and even Christian denominational and non-denominational churches that have been created after the fall of the Soviet Union. We can learn to appreciate the good and remove the negative and the temporary lies of socialism from our lives so that we can persevere. 

Zoya Leshcheva

 Zoya Leshcheva

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“But Zoya Leshcheva managed to outdo her whole family. And here is how. Her father, her mother, her grandfather, her grandmother, and her elder adolescent brothers had all been scattered to distant camps because of their faith in GOD.”- (page 276–277)

We learn in the Gulag Archipelago about the manner that socialism did not help the elderly, adults, nor the children. We learn about individuals from all ages who discovered how socialism spoke lies and actually led to envy and coveting. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn spoke about elder individuals who resisted the lies and deceit of socialism including Anatoly Fastenko and Dusya Chmil. We learned about adults who denied the temptations and persisted amidst the persecution of socialism seen in Kozyrev and Irena Nagel. We find interesting and amazing examples of children and adolescents who also decided to deny socialism and keep their faith in GOD Almighty.

Zoya was a ten year old child who was able to resist and fight off the attempts of socialism to be indoctrinated into the practice of envy, hate, and sin. We learned that Soviet Bolshevik socialism attempted to break up families so that the children did not live with their parents. This was intentional so that the children would grow up resenting their parents eventhough it was the Soviet Bolsheviks who caused this difficulty. Soviet socialism also attempted to cause adultery to be practiced so that families were not stable and the commandments of Moses were not obeyed. The Soviet Bolsheviks also attempted to prevent families from raising up their children in the Christian faith because then the children would grow in virtues, mature, and develop qualities that would help them persevere. The intention was to produce negative emotions in the children and a lack of stability so that they would decide to practice sin and idol worship instead. Socialism hates stable families raised after the Christian model seen in Genesis and throughout Scripture.

The Soviet Bolsheviks tried to send whole families to gulag but would break up the families so that the family members were not together. Even in cases of marriages without children, the Soviet Bolsheviks attempted to separate spouses so that they were not together in gulag and attempted to cause adultery. Amidst all of that, Zoya was taken to gulag along with her whole family including grandparents, parents, and elder siblings. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn described that Zoya was separated from her family being only a ten year old and was sent  to an orphanage. Zoya would decide to persevere being righteous and faithful to GOD Almighty and not believe the lies of socialism seeing the cowardice and envy that socialism causes.

“Even here she refused to steal or speak bad words. ‘A mother as sacred as mine must never have a daughter who is a criminal. I would rather be a political, like my whole family.’”- (page 277)

Zoya would persevere without renouncing her faith in GOD Almighty. She refused to be molded to the indoctrination that socialism attempted to have on children in the orphanage. Zoya had a necklace that other children attempted to steal from her, yet she would not allow the other children to steal her necklace. Eventually, they sent Zoya to an orphanage for children with mental developmental delays because she refused to be indoctrinated to socialism. There too she kept her necklace and refused to be corrupted by socialism and circumstances. Zoya preferred to be a “political”, an individual that was persecuted and not treated with equality by the Soviet Bolsheviks, because of her faith in GOD Almighty. Zoya knew that the difficulties, adversities, and negative circumstances were all because of socialism and the envy of socialists. Zoya refused to accept socialism and lived her life denying the indoctrination of Soviet socialism. Zoya remained a Christian and did not care about the difficulties.

“For her directness and her language [speaking truth] she got a second camp sentence and, it seems, a third one also.”- (page 278)

Kozyrev

 Kozyrev

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“Kozyrev, whose brilliant career in astronomy was interrupted by his arrest, saved himself by only thinking about the eternal and infinite. Of the order of the Universe.”- (page 144)

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn described that individuals that decided to worship GOD Almighty were able to persevere despite opposition, persecution, and difficult times. We learned about different stories of the Gulag Archipelago that described the envy that happens in socialism and communism. We learn that socialism does not help anyone. Even amidst the persecution that righteous individuals went through, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn described how the righteous were able to persevere without corrupting themselves. This is something that surprised Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn because while the circumstances were not ideal, righteous individuals kept believing and having faith in GOD Almighty and persevered. There is the story of an astronomer who was envied by the Soviet Bolsheviks.

“And in this manner he began to discover a new field in physics. And only in this manner did he succeed in surviving in the Dmitrovsk Prison. But his line of mental exploration was blocked by forgotten figures. Now just where could he get them in his solitary-confinement cell with its overnight kerosene lamp...And the scientist prayed, 'Please, GOD! I have done everything I could. Please help me! Please help me continue!” (page 144)

The person's name is Kozyrev. We learn that he had a career in astronomy and was good at his profession. Because he was good, most likely, the Soviet Bolsheviks envied him and sent him to gulag. We learn that the individual believed in GOD Almighty acknowledging that the skies and the earth and everything is created by GOD Almighty. We learn that the Soviets placed him in gulag and tried to discourage his faith. Kozyrev decided to keep his faith. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn described of Kozyrev being kept in solitary confinement in order to discourage him. Kozyrev was able to think about the importance of GOD Almighty and persevere through everything.

“Half an hour passed after his prayer; they came to exchange his book; and as usual without asking anything at all, they pushed a book at him. It was entitled A Course in Astrophysics! Where had it come from? He simply could not imagine such a book in a prison library. Aware of the brief duration of this coincidence, Kozyrev threw himself on it and began to memorize everything he needed immediately, and everything he might need later on. In all, just two days had passed, and he had eight days left in which to keep his book, when there was an unscheduled inspection by the chief of the prison. His eagle eye noticed immediately. 'But you are an astronomer?’ 'Yes.’ 'Take this book away from him.’”- (page 144)

In a specific occassion, the Soviet Bolsheviks attempted to prevent Kozyrev from improving upon his knowledge of astronomy. Kozyrev prayed to GOD Almighty and was able to keep going. Kozyrev prayed for GOD Almighty to help him persevere despite opposition. We learn that Kozyrev was able to persevere and was helped by GOD Almighty. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn described how in the minimal Soviet library at the gulag that Kozyrev was placed, the Soviet guards only circulated Soviet propaganda books. To the amazement of Kozyrev, the guards handed him a book on Astronomy and Physics. Kozyrev decided to learn everything that he could from the book in the short time that he was able to keep the book. Kozyrev was able to memorize and study the Astronomy book.

We learn that Kozyrev was able to persevere despite the opposition of the Soviets. Kozyrev was able to keep on working and learning. We learn that after two days the Soviet guards made an inspection and the chief recalled that he was an astronomer and took the book away. Despite the circumstances, Kozyrev learned and memorized the book in those two days in order to allow him the manner to keep working in Astronomy while being in gulag. This story helps us know that faith allows us to persevere despite opposition, circumstances, and envy. 

Dusya Chmil

 Dusya Chmil

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“Dusya Chmill, a round faced, calm, and quiet illiterate old woman. The convoy guards called out to her: 'Chmill! What is your article?’ And she gently, good-naturedly replied: 'Why are you asking, my boy? It's all written down there. I can't remember them all.’ (She had a bouquet of sections under Article 58.) 'Your term!’ Dusya Chmil sighed. She wasn't giving such contradictory answer in order to annoy the convoy. In her own simplehearted way she pondered this question: Her term? Did they really think it was given to human beings to know their terms? '...'Till GOD forgives my sins..' ‘…But after two and a half years of her term had passed, even though she had sent no petitions- all of a sudden a piece of paper came: release!’”-(page 317)

Dusya Chmil was a woman that decided to keep being sincere and righteous and was taken to gulag for false accusations. We learn that Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn described stories of individuals that had done no wrong and yet were persecuted by the socialist Bolshevik Soviets. While there was persecution based on envy, some of these stories relate how there were also righteous individuals that did not corrupt themselves and remained loyal to the worship of GOD Almighty. We learned that while some were martyred and obtained eternal salvation, others kept persevering and were able to be freed from gulag.

The story of Dusya Chmil describes an older woman who had been falsely accused by the Soviet socialists and taken to gulag. Dusya Chmil did not really care for socialism and described everything in plain language describing that she was going to keep worshiping GOD Almighty and did not care about socialism. When Soviet soldiers asked about her article meaning the reason she was being sent to gulag, Dusya Chmil answered with honesty and was not trying to annoy. She described that she did not know anything about that and that it was all written down. When asked the term she was receiving, she answered with honesty describing that she was going to keep persevering worshiping GOD Almighty.

The story of Dusya Chmil is surprising because while being an older woman considered a “nun” by the Soviet socialists, she decided to persevere with her faith in GOD Almighty and was released in two and a half years. This is surprising because for each individual there were different circumstances. The most important part was not renouncing Christianity despite martyrdom, persecution, or envy. We learn that Dusya Chmill was able to persevere and was released early from gulag not having to serve the fifteen years described. This describes the manner that GOD Almighty helps the righteous persevere when they decide to be zealous for their faith and not practice idol worship and sin. Some may have been martyred yet obtained eternal salvation, yet others persevered being released early from gulag. Others served time in gulag like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, were freed, then exiled to another country, and never renounced their faith in King Jesus Christ.

Dusya Chmil describes the “nuns” that decided to worship GOD Almighty above everything with zeal. The Soviet Bolsheviks hated the “nuns” because they were stubborn in their belief and did not really care about idolatry. We learn that the “nuns” were older women that never renounced their faith in GOD Almighty yet remained skeptical about socialism and communism. In Orthodox Christianity, there were no nuns in the sense of the Catholic Church, yet there were zealous older women that were called "nuns" because of their zeal. There were older men and women that chose to be zealous in their faith that caused envy from the Soviets. We learn that the older generations were not looked upon favorably by the Soviet socialists because they did not care about idol worship that was socialism. We learn that not only were the older generations skeptical of socialism because there are numerous stories of younger individuals and adults that remained zealous for the worship of GOD Almighty. This describes how socialism does not care about men, women, the elderly, the young, and adults, and instead only cares about envy and temporary lies. 

Patriarch Tikhon

 Patriarch Tikhon

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“The staunch Patriarch warned them, “...for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword. (Matthew 26: 52). But at that time it seemed absurd, impossible! How could they imagine at that time that History sometimes does know revenge…” (page 245)

We learn that while the Soviet Bolsheviks attempted to "appear benevolent" saying that they were trying to help the working class, they were actually persecuting the working class. We learn that the Soviet Bolsheviks wanted to remove faith, history, art, science, literature, and replace it with government worship. Patriarch Tikhon who was the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, was persecuted in 1918, and described that the persecution of believers would essentially lead to the destruction of the wicked seen in King Jesus Christ's reproof of violence describing that those who kill by the sword are themselves killed by the sword. This describes that GOD Almighty is aware of the sin committed and is able to judge when GOD Almighty decides. We learn that this reproof describes how there is justice by GOD Almighty in destroying murderers and idolators. We learn that the own Bolsheviks ended up persecuting Bolsheviks. In Soviet Russia, the socialists persecuted socialists. (Also, the nazi socialists fought against the Soviet socialists.)

This describes the truth of King Jesus Christ and the manner that Patriarch Tikhon judged the Soviets in 1918 describing the deceit and murders of the Soviet Bolsheviks. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn questioned how the Germans were able to denounce the nazi socialists who were murderers and evildoers through the Nuremberg Trials while the Soviets had difficulty denouncing the injustices of Stalin. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was able to see that there was justice in the manner that even Bolshevik sycophants were themselves falsely accused and sent to gulag. We are able to read about stories of Soviet socialists that were sent to gulag and had to labor in camps based on false accusations and envy being that they were loyal to the Soviet state.

We learn that GOD Almighty makes justice because Lenin was sent to exile by Stalin, and Stalin would also later be sent to exile and died prior to the 1960s. We learn that righteous believers were either persecuted to martyrdom or persevered through persecution, yet Christianity kept being preached. We learn that the Soviet Union did not help its citizens and declined significantly after the writings of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn were published. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn writes about the importance of integrity despite the adversity, circumstances, and envy that he went through.

While being sent to gulag being a Lenin socialist, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn would renounce socialism based on the lies seen of the Soviets, wonder and amazement of seeing righteous Christians persevere despite persecution, and the realization that there is justice and the need to practice integrity despite the iniquity that is in the world. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn renounced idolatry for the worship of King Jesus Christ. We learn that Christianity kept and keeps being preached to Russia and Europe and the manner that the Soviet Union collapsed in the 1990s and became independant states where most nations have Christian churches and prefer capitalism. 

Irena Nagel

 Irena Nagel

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“A security officer, Junior Lieutenant Sidorenko, expressed a desire to get more intimately acquainted. And Negel replied: “I would rather be kissed by the lowliest thief in a camp! You ought to be ashamed of yourself. I can hear your baby crying in the next room.” Repulsed by her outburst, the security officer suddenly changed his expression and said: 'Surely you don't really think I like you? I merely wanted to put you to the test. So here's the way it is: you must collaborate with us.’ She refused and was sent to a penalty camp.”- (page 260)

We learn about specific stories in the Gulag Archipelago about individuals that were true and real and did not want to practice adultery and envy. We learn about Irena Nagel who was a typist who was asked to practice adultery with a Soviet officer. We learn that Irena Nagel did not want to practice adultery and instead refused to start an adulterous relationship with a Soviet officer. Irena Nagel knew that Sidorenko had most likely a wife and children. She learned about this since his children were making noises in the next room. The Soviet officer had resentment and sent Irena Nagel to gulag based on false accusations based on resentment being denied his advances and envy.

This is interesting because there are similar stories in the Gulag Archipelago about individuals that did nothing wrong and yet were sent to gulag. We learn that the reason they were sent to gulag was based on envy, hate, and resentments. After being denied the romantic interest, Sidorenko described that he was only putting Irena Nagel to the test describing the arrogance and lack of empathy of Sidorenko. We learn that she did not change her mind and was sent to a penalty camp in gulag for not accepting his romantic interest of adultery.

We are able to see from the stories of the Gulag Archipelago about individuals that had integrity and preferred to keep their integrity than practice sin and adultery. We learn that this story reminds us of the importance of integrity despite threats, envy, and resentments. We learn that there were different individuals that went through difficulties because of the envy of a socialist. The story of Pavel Chulpanyev describes a similar understanding of how Soviet socialism is not what it appears to be. Because Pavel Chulpanyev had the affection of a woman, Lozovsky was envious and falsely accused Chulpanyev of sedition based on envy.

We learn that socialism and communism are not good forms of governance seeing the manner that there are stories of how Soviet socialists were motivated by envy instead of genuine empathy. We learn that despite the difficulties, individuals persevered and helps us know that righteousness and goodness helps us persist. Individuals that were good refused to corrupt themselves or practice iniquity. This allows us to know that we can not believe the temporary lies of the snake that say that, “Everyone is a sinner and practices sin.” We learn that those are temporary lies because the stories of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn describe that there were always good individuals that never corrupted themselves. They may not have been the majority, but they were not few either. 

Priest Viktor Shipovalnikov

 Priest Viktor Shipovalnikov

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“They sent the Priest Viktor Shipovalnikov there on charges of conducting “religious propaganda” (he had celebrated vespers for five nurses on Easter's Eve.)

In the stories of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn describing the Gulag Archipelago, we read about righteous individuals that decided to persevere in the worship of GOD Almighty and did not corrupt themselves to idol worship. We learn that there are important stories that help us know that GOD Almighty helps the righteous persevere despite set-backs, opposition, and persecution. While socialism and communism is not an ideal method of governance, we learn about righteous individuals who persevered despite the adversities and envy of the Soviet socialists. We learned about individuals that refused to work for the Soviets, refused to corrupt themselves to practice evil, and kept speaking truth despite the envy and hate of socialists.

This is important knowing that evil attempts to discourage saying that everyone practices sin, when the reality is that not everyone practices sin and there are righteous people who want to know nothing of evil. We learned about priests who kept preaching King Jesus Christ and never renounced their faith despite being envied and falsely accused. There were righteous believers that were women that refused to renounce their belief and were sent to gulag.This allows us to know that throughout history there are righteous individuals that choose to be righteous and have fidelity to GOD Almighty instead of being in the road of perdition in the practice of sin and idol worship.

We learned about Priest Viktor Shipovalnikov that decided to conduct a mass despite persecution and was sent to gulag. We learn that he provided a mass for five nurses and the manner that the Soviet socialists falsely accused him with “religious propaganda”. We learn that despite the censorship and attempts to prevent socialists and communists from hearing Scripture, Priest Viktor Shipovalnikov was able to keep preaching and keep to his ideals and integrity despite the opposition. We learn of woman that were called “nuns” that were women that decided to keep their faith and never gave in to idol worship, envy, and corruption.

“They kept whole barracks of “nuns” there who refused to work for the devil. At the penalty camp for prisoners under convoy at the Pechora State Farm they held them in a penalty block up to their knees in water. In the autumn of 1941 they gave them all 58-14-economic counterrevolution- and shot them.)”

“And how is it that genuine religious believers survived in camps (as we mentioned more than once)? In the course of this book we have already mentioned their self-confident procession through the Archipelago…How some of them were mowed down by machine guns and those next in line continued their march. A steadfastness unheard of in the twentieth century!” (page 317)

We learn in the Gulag Archipelago about individuals that were able to keep preaching and speaking truth regardless of the opposition and hindrances. We learn that even in the gulag system, individuals from all social classes were able to hear about Scripture and the need to accept King Jesus Christ. We learn that while some were martyred, Christianity kept increasing including in the Soviet Union. We learn that while some Christians were persecuted to martyrdom in the gulag, others were able to keep persevering preaching and keeping to their ideals. We learn that righteous individuals held to their faith instead of corrupting themselves to idol worship, iniquity, and greed. We learn that even individuals that were not righteous were able to learn about Christianity in the gulag system. There are multiple stories of individuals who renounced sin for King Jesus Christ. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn details this in great detail because he renounced Lenin socialism for King Jesus Christ. 

Gregory Mendel

 Gregory Mendel

We learn from Gregory Mendel that he was a Christian monk who was able to discover knowledge of the study of Genetics. While attending to his studies and devotion to the worship of GOD Almighty, Gregory Mendel was able to describe through the studying of peas that there were genetic differences in the plants. In the monastery, Gregory Mendel was able to observe garden plants and attempted to reason the genetic variabilities between plants. Gregory Mendel was able to discover that there are dominant and recessive traits that describe how a specific plant will grow and develop. Gregory Mendel was able to describe that parent plants were able to pass on to their offspring specific genetic traits.

Gregory Mendel described that garden plants including peas were able to vary genetically between each other. He was able to describe that there were two specific types of plants produced. There were the round and green pea plants and shrivelled and green peas. We learn that Gregory Mendel was able to deduce that the dominant genes of roundness and green peas was predominant with seventy five percent of the peas being round and green.

Gregory Mendel deduced that the other twenty five percent of the peas were green and shrivelled. This describes that the peas were of two specific gene traits. There was the color green and the characteristic of the pea being round or shrivelled. We learn that this described only two specific traits. Gregory Mendel helped give understanding concerning the Punnet squares that allow for us to know how the specific cross polination of different plants can lead to different genotypes (genetic make up) and phenotypes (outward visible qualities). We learn that a match between a dominant recessive trait (Rr) with another dominant recessive trait (Rr) leads to two different possible visible traits.

We learn that Gregory Mendel described that there could be multiple traits that can be observed. In another scenario, there were pea plants that were able to produce green round peas, green shriveled peas, yellow round peas, or yellow shriveled peas. This understanding of genetics allowed us to understand observable genetic traits that can be explained by science including reasoning why some individuals have widow's peaks and others do not, differences in eye color, and even incidence of diseases such as Tay Sach's disease or auto-immune diseases such as Lupus. With Gregory Mendel's knowledge of genetics, we are able to understand the importance of science and also integrity being able to understand that scientific knowledge can be used to help instead of being misused and misapplied. We can persevere being grateful for scientific knowledge that prevents us from being arrogant and irresponsible. 

John Dalton

 John Dalton

John Dalton was a Christian individual that was a part of the Quakers. We learn that John Dalton was able to understand specific knowledge of atoms. We learn from Chemistry about the manner that elements are composed of atoms and have specific structures. Referring to the periodic table of the elements, we can learn that each element is different and has different specific qualities including differences in protons, neutrons, and electrons. John Dalton was able to discover that elements are made up of atoms.

This is impressive because atoms and specific knowledge of Chemistry concerns information that would be difficult to observe. We learn that he was able to understand how elements are made up of atoms and gave understanding about the composition of elements. In Chemistry, we learn that specific elements can form compounds and lead to chemical reactions. We learn that science can help us understand the importance of learning and being able to remain responsible practicing integrity. We learn that Chemistry can be applied to create helpful medications, study the benefits of nutrition, and avoid illicit substances (poisons) that are not needed.

Another important distinction about John Dalton was that he was color blind. John Dalton could not distinguish between specific colors due to a genetic predisposition that prevented specific colors from being observed. There was a story describing how John Dalton once thought that he was wearing the traditional color black to go to church as it was accustomed by the Quakers. Upon arriving to church, the individuals looked at him funny since he had instead worn a bright colored shirt that was not black. John Dalton could not understand how he could not have chosen a different shirt color and it was noted later that he was color blind.

The condition of being color blind or daltonism causes individuals to not be able to see specific colors from the red, green, and blue spectrum. In his time, there were theories of how color blindness happens. After multiple studies, we are able to understand that color blindness is a genetic trait that is a recessive trait, yet can affect individuals. Being a recessive trait, it only affects individuals who have parents with the recessive trait of color blindness. This was noted from the fact that John Dalton's brother also had color blindness.