As a bright, young maths student, he once said he could easily have ended up being recruited by the NKVD, the secret police, to perpetrate terror.

• 做为一个生气勃勃的年轻数学系学生，索尔仁尼琴曾说他最终会被内政部人民委员会警察（秘密警察，译者注：克格勃的前身）招录而去从事恐怖活动的。