Read the story description and historical context for the short story "Condensed Milk" and answer the question.
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.
Select a detail to support the idea that punishment was harsh under Joseph Stalin's rule.
A. Stalin ruled the Soviet Union from 1929 to 1953.
B. Stalin sentenced Soviet citizens to work camps or had them executed.
C. Stalin used terror and violence to rule the Soviet Union.
D. Stalin wanted to transform the Soviet Union from a poor country to a superpower.