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* [[The Informant]]: ''stoolies'', as they were called, were universally despised by prisoners and the security services alike. In many cases they didn't have a choice when they were recruited; Solzhenitsyn himself was forced to become an informant. He considered himself very fortunate to have been transferred out to a ''sharashka'' before internal security could really pressure him into snitching on overheard conversations.
* [[Insane Troll Logic]]: Article 58 of the Soviet Penal Law, which could be--and was--routinely twisted to cover any sort of unapproved behaviour.
* [[No Except Yes]]: In a rather [[Insane Troll Logic]] fashion, this was used to reintroduce executions after Lenin had abolished them when it came time to have a guy shot for treason. When it was pointed out executions were abolished, the response to that was:
{{quote|'''"What are you worrying about? Executions
have been abolished. But Shchastny is not being executed; he is
being shot."'''}}
* [[No Honor Among Thieves]]: the "58s", as the political prisoners are called, have to share their camps with the "socially friendly" elements, the thieves and career criminals, and Solzhenitsyn makes it very clear that the romanticization of the thieves has no basis at all in reality, particularly as the thieves could be trusted by the camp administration to keep the 58s under strict control.
* [[Place Worse Than Death]]: the eponymous Gulags.
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