Throughout chapter 6 there is a secondary theme, explicitly stated on pg. 263,

"every Soviet person who had lived abroad had to be imprisoned in camp".

This comes from the fact that anyone who has ever seen the relative plenty of even wartime Europe will know that the starvation and poverty, the inevitable result of communism, is not normal. Thus anyone who had lived abroad had to be silenced lest they spread discontent. As long as a single communist exists anywhere in the world, they will work to destroy all other systems, because theirs is so inferior. The only way to make them stop is to make them stop existing.

As usual the footnotes are where the interesting information is, A footnote on page 266 has this tidbit about ex post facto laws:

The Chinese, in fact, will promulgate precisely such laws--just give them the chance to reach out that far.

And of course Solzhenitsyn is correct in his prediction.

The only thing chapter 8 really points out is that we are still in the phase where the left gives lip service to the law. The trial of Chauvin shows that the outcome is determined before the trial ever starts, but at least there is a trial.

As for the poll, we might as well end here. Much of Solzhenitsyn's book so far seems excessively redundant. Fortunately, it seems that the book is organized from most relevant and broad to the least important and detailed.

Throughout chapter 6 there is a secondary theme, explicitly stated on pg. 263,

"every Soviet person who had lived abroad had to be imprisoned in camp".

This comes from the fact that anyone who has ever seen the relative plenty of even wartime Europe will know that the starvation and poverty, the inevitable result of communism, is not normal. Thus anyone who had lived abroad had to be silenced lest they spread discontent. As long as a single communist exists anywhere in the world, they will work to destroy all other systems, because theirs is so inferior. The only way to make them stop is to make them stop existing.

As usual the footnotes are where the interesting information is, A footnote on page 266 has this tidbit about ex post facto laws:

The Chinese, in fact, will promulgate precisely such laws--just give them the chance to reach out that far.

And of course Solzhenitsyn is correct in his prediction.

The only thing chapter 8 really points out is that we are still in the phase where the left gives lip service to the law. The trial of Chauvin shows that the outcome is determined before the trial ever starts, but at least there is a trial.