# We're all going to the Gulag Archipeligo. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 19, 2015, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292 "2015-08-19T22:17:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/41 "2015-08-20T18:50:15Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > It’s pronounced Archie Pellago. I know because I used to work with him. A good comrade and a friend of the proletariat. He ever get any real energy out of splitting beer atoms? If not then I don’t know how good a friend of the proletariat he is, even if his name IS Archie. ---
**Author:** ![buckgully](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb9ed0/32.png) [@buckgully](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buckgully)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/42 "2015-08-20T18:53:33Z")
Nobody better lay a finger on my boat’s daughters! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/43 "2015-08-20T19:17:30Z")
> [@race\_to\_the\_bottom](#): > > The American people were duped by a socialist who fantasized about rape and doesn’t own a comb or an Armani suit. Now he will confiscate all their houses, boats and their daughters and send everyone else to the Gulag. :eek: Shut your festering yabbering hole you bottom-feeding rampion eater. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/44 "2015-08-20T19:51:58Z")
> [@watchwolf49](#): > > Maybe he won his race to the bottom. Won? The bozo started there. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/45 "2015-08-20T19:53:00Z")
> [@Malden\_Capell](#): > > [It’s a book.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago) Three books actually. I’m the only person I know who has read all three. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/46 "2015-08-20T19:54:11Z")
> [@XT](#): > > He ever get any real energy out of splitting beer atoms? If not then I don’t know how good a friend of the proletariat he is, even if his name IS Archie. I prefer Mehitabel myself. Tojours gai! ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/47 "2015-08-20T20:06:24Z")
Was it ever published as three separate books, I wonder? And what were the titles? They were all in one volume when I read them. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/48 "2015-08-20T22:34:17Z")
> [@August\_West](#): > > But do you say “ark-i-PEL-a-joe” or “ark-i-pe-LAH-go” > > That’s the test for uncultured heathens. Nyeh kulturny! ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/49 "2015-08-20T22:57:00Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > Three books actually. I’m the only person I know who has read all three. One book, in three volumes. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/50 "2015-08-20T23:10:42Z")
One Day in the Life of race\_to\_the\_bottom. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/51 "2015-08-21T00:03:53Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > Was it ever published as three separate books, I wonder? And what were the titles? That’s easy. _The Fellowship of the Gulag The Two Guard Towers The Return of the Warden_ ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/52 "2015-08-21T01:01:11Z")
:)Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Ispolkom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47774/32.png) [@Ispolkom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ispolkom)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/53 "2015-08-21T01:53:48Z")
> [@August\_West](#): > > But do you say “ark-i-PEL-a-joe” or “ark-i-pe-LAH-go” > > That’s the test for uncultured heathens. Nyet! I say Ar-khi-pel-ag ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/54 "2015-08-21T02:46:59Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > That’s easy. > > _The Fellowship of the Gulag > The Two Guard Towers > The Return of the Warden_ You forgot the prequel…The Commissar an unexpected journey… ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/55 "2015-08-21T03:31:49Z")
Its the book you give a friend who’s relentlessly cheerful nature you find offensive. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/56 "2015-08-21T06:26:19Z")
> [@XT](#): > > You forgot the prequel…The Commissar an unexpected journey… Hey, hey, hey! Didn’t you see _Beetlejuice_? There are just some posters nobody wants to see come back. Let’s be careful out there, shall we? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/57 "2015-08-21T12:29:16Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Its the book you give a friend who’s relentlessly cheerful nature you find offensive. It certainly helped cure me of mine. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/58 "2015-08-21T14:45:57Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Hey, hey, hey! Didn’t you see _Beetlejuice_? There are just some posters nobody wants to see come back. Let’s be careful out there, shall we? Don’t turn around! Oh aah ooh, the Commissars in town…ooh aah ooh! :eek: Yeah, we definitely don’t want that guy to come back from his unexpected journey. No there and back again for that guy, furry feet or no furry feet! ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/59 "2015-08-21T19:44:28Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > One book, in three volumes. Which came out at different times. Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3. The Phantom Spy The Patriotic War Revenge of the Barbed Wire. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/60 "2015-08-21T19:49:23Z")
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