《古拉格群岛》描述的系统，是充满折磨，统治和亚文化的，以一种无情的，可怕的，包罗万象的形式存在的系统。

"The Gulag Archipelago" described the system, its tortures, rules and subculture, in relentless, gruesome, encyclopedic form.

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这里我们将看看在并非如此野蛮的黑暗世纪里，那个充满着折磨和审判的世界里到底发生了些什么。

Here we shed a little light on the not-so-barbaric Dark Ages, and what really went on in the worlds of torture and justice.

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折磨的事实也是存在的：欢乐谷有经过消毒的饭厅和抽水马桶供美国人使用，也有“一个恐怖的监狱充满了可怕的故事”。

There was the matter of torture: Happy Valley, which had a sanitized mess hall and western toilets for the Americans, also had “a grim prison about which unpleasant stories were told.

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