This is not a meme:
Grab the book that is closest to you.
Open it to page 161.
Find the fifth full sentence.
Post the text of the sentence.
Don't search around for the coolest or most impressive book you have: use the one that really is closest to you.
"Peasants, and those being transported at the start of the mass deportations from the Baltic States and eastern Poland, had a rougher time of it."
Gulag: A History, by Anne Applebaum. The bookshelf is right behind my desk; history shelf eye level while sitting.
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