After being decorated in the front line he was arrested in the winter of 1945 and imprisoned for nine years, then released in central Asia and went on to shake the world with his testimony that the whole of the Soviet Union was honeycombed by a "gulag archipelago."
索氏曾在前線接受多次勳章，一九四五年冬天被捕，在囚牢中度過九年，然後流放中亞，終以排山倒海的證據，指陳古拉格群島是遍及整個蘇聯的蜂窩。