In 2–3 complete sentences, answer the following question: why did you select your module one short story? provide at least two specific details to show why you chose the short story.
"condensed milk" by varlam shalamov
story description:
if you were starving, what would you do for food? "condensed milk" tells the story of a political prisoner in a russian gulag (a forced-labor camp) who is faced with a choice: stay in the gulag—working and starving—or escape from the prison and risk dying. what choice would you make?
historical context:
from 1929 to 1953, joseph stalin was the dictator of the soviet union. his goal was to transform the soviet union from a poor society into a world superpower. he used terror and violence to rule, and under his reign, millions of his own people died in work camps, from starvation due to famine, or by execution.