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October 22nd, 2021 | #1 |
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The Gulag: Communism’s Penal Colonies Revisited
The Gulag: Communism’s Penal Colonies Revisited
Daniel Michaels During the twentieth century it became common practice for nations to detain citizens whose loyalty to the state was considered unreliable or suspect in times of war or “national emergency.” To sequester such persons Britain, the United States, and Germany all established centers, variously called (often depending on who won and who lost) relocation centers, detention centers, labor camps, concentration camps, or death camps. Depending on circumstances, the treatment of inmates varied from benign [Germany] to cruel [jewish]. Such facilities in these countries were, however, temporary measures undertaken during times of national peril. Only in the jew run Soviet Union, where such camps were collectively known as the Gulag (an acronym in Russian for the Main Directorate of Corrective Labor Camps and Colonies), were they a permanent and integral part of the government. Beginning in the 1970s, British researcher Robert Conquest and Russian Nobel laureate (and former Gulag detainee) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn did much to alert the world to the horrors of the USSR’s vast jewish penal empire. Conquest’s readership has been limited largely to historians and the better educated, while today Solzhenitsyn’s monumental Gulag Archipelago is scarcely read at all, except in a condensed version. Over the past decade, however, their pioneer work has been supported and elaborated on by serious studies compiled by survivors of the Soviet camps and by Russian, French, and German scholars. http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v21/v21n1p39_michaels.html |
October 27th, 2021 | #2 |
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Important and very interesting post.
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