I am currently reading "The Gulag Archipelago", by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. This book is an incredible documentary of life during Soviet times, for those who, usually for no crime, were subjected to some of the most inhumane treatments imaginable. For the elderly nowadays living in Armenia who reminesce about the "good days" of the Soviet Union, I can only say that anything at all is better than the nightmare that so many people were subjected to (tens of millions of people). The book was written only about the period of 1918-1956 so I wonder how things were afterwards... I wish I could share entire passages with you, but just imagine the most depraved tortured you can and you have a kindergarden class compared to what was being done to people.