" No one, no one at all, ever set out to torture us on purpose! ... After all, was it because Pontius Pilate wanted to humiliate him that Christ was crucified between two thieves? It just happened to be crucifixion day that day - and there was only one Golgotha, and time was short. "

― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago, 1918 - 1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books I-II