Which Reminds Me

I might be remembering that in high school someone gave an oral book report on Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago," although I cannot remember who that was or ever reading that book myself. Sounded sort of depressing. But the author escaped to New England and wrote about Siberia from there for about 20 years in exile, later returning to Russia as a hero. I did read another book by an escaped KGB agent but I cannot remember the title or author, just that he seemed to lack any type of morals, just a hired killer. So what does Russia really stand for? I really don't see the point of going there unless we have something better to tell the world, than just to sink into the cesspool of soulless crazy stupidities, all for the sake of money. If you cannot walk the walk and talk the talk, then you would just be adding complications to the problem. So just don't go there.