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| | Gulag - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Even more broadly, "Gulag" has come to mean the Soviet repressive system itself, the set of procedures that prisoners once called the "meat-grinder": the arrests, the interrogations, the transport in unheated cattle cars, the forced labor, the destruction of families, the years spent in exile, the early and unnecessary deaths. | | | The term "corrective labor camp" was suggested for official use by the politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union session of July 27, 1929, as a replacement of the term concentration camp, commonly used until that time. | | | In 1931–32, the Gulag had approximately 200,000 prisoners in the camps; in 1935 — approximately 800,000 in camps and 300,000 in colonies (annual averages), and in 1939 about 1.3 millions in camps and 350,000 in colonies. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag
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| | Gulag on Encyclopedia.com |
| | GULAG [Gulag] system of forced-labor prison camps in the USSR, from the Russian acronym [GULag] for the Main Directorate of Corrective Labor Camps, a department of the Soviet secret police (originally the Cheka; subsequently the GPU, OGPU, NKVD, MVD, and finally the KGB). | | | Gulag deaths of both political prisoners and common criminals from overwork, starvation, and other forms of maltreatment are estimated to have been in the millions during Stalin's years in power. | | | Corruption in the Gulag: dilemmas of officials and prisoners. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/G/Gulag.asp
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| | Michael Ledeen on Anne Applebaum's Gulag on National Review Online |
| | Gulag rests primarily upon the documentary evidence, but there is a lot of anecdotal material that was gathered in years of interviews, and of course from a considerable body of autobiographical literature. | | | Like Hitler's slave-labor and extermination camps, the Soviet Gulag was the symbol of the regime. | | | Like the Nazi camps, the Soviet ones started to solve a particular political problem — how to eliminate unwanted elements from the society at large — and then took on a life of their own, sometimes becoming the driving force of policy rather than a tool of it. |
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http://www.nationalreview.com/ledeen/ledeen050603.asp
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| | Gulag Day |
| | Bukovsky: Contrary to what one might expect, the idea of establishing an International Gulag Day was suggested not by any former Gulag's inmate, nor by any Russian, Pole, Hungarian, Czech or Chinese, but by an Italian organization Comitatus pro Libertatibus, The Freedom Committees, a group of Italian intellectuals with libertarian views. | | | Yarim-Agaev: Gulag is a fundamental fact of any communist system. | | | Hollander: I agree that forced labor camps were essential parts of most communist systems at any rate during much of their existence. |
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http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=3010
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| | FT November 2003: Remembering the Gulag |
| | Applebaum recounts how hard it was for her to find memoirs of people who had been in the Gulag as children, even though there had been tens of thousands of such prisoners. | | | She properly notes a major distinction between the actual Nazi and Soviet camp systems: the latter did not include purpose-designed extermination camps with mass murder as their sole function—places where almost all newly arrived prisoners were sent directly into gas chambers to be killed as quickly as possible. | | | The most idealistic Communists (there were still many of them in the 1930s) seem to have shunned assignments in the Gulag administration, which was seen as a dumping ground for mediocrities and drunkards. |
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http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0311/articles/uzzell.html
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| | Comments on 8389 MetaFilter |
| | Ezrael says "[a gulag] is solely for the purpose of scaring everyone into behaving in a state that does not trust its own citizens." That's the way gulags (forced-labor camps) were used in the old Soviet Union, but prison camps don't create the sort of legal system that imprisons political dissidents. | | | I am not arguing that the death penalty is humane...I do not believe that it is. But if you are against the death penalty, I do not see how you can fail to oppose creating a place where we attempt to starve and work people to death. | | | Gulags for some, home lodging of murderers for others. |
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http://www.metafilter.com/comments.mefi/8389
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| | Unmarked Monuments - The legacy of the Gulag is everywhere, so why don't we know more about it? By Stephen Kotkin |
| | At any given time, the Gulag held 2.5 million or so people, but turnover was fantastic, given the many short sentences and releases. | | | Evoking the Nazis, Applebaum calls the Gulag sites "concentration camps" even as she effectively details the Soviet obsession with captive, albeit unproductive labor for their economy. | | | After 2,000 endnotes referencing documents, memoirs, interviews, and profuse scholarly studies in Russian, Polish, French, and English, she delivers readers essentially to where the anti-Soviet master's "literary investigation" did, despite gingerly criticisms of him: Lenin, not Stalin, founded the camps; they were integral to the Soviet system; they were evil. |
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http://www.slate.com/id/2083535
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| | Amazon.com: Gulag : A History: Books: Anne Applebaum |
| | But what made "Gulag" so special for me is the personal insight that the author generates from official documents, prisoner journals, survivor interviews, and her own visits. | | | She also shows how much of the impetus for the camps was economic - the Soviet leaders believed that the camps were producing more than they were costing - but that this belief, like the overall Soviet system, was built on a foundation of manipulated figures and outright lies. | | | She includes an appendix in which she discusses the various ways of calculating how many died in the camps, and throughout the book she thoughtfully reflects on why the gulag does not loom as large in the Western imagination as, for instance, the Holocaust. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1400034094?vi=reasonmagazineA
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| | Ned Rice on Amnesty International on National Review Online |
| | Carelessly tossing around terms like "gulag" trivializes history's great horrors, just as when PETA called the eating of meat a "holocaust on your plate," or whenever Republicans (or, to be fair, feminists) are called Nazis, or when Ted Kennedy gravely announced that Abu Ghraib under U.S. forces had merely "reopened under new management." | | | Where do I sign?" Instead, detainees were required to guess which counterrevolutionary crime they had supposedly committed by confessing to one, then another, then another, and so on until by sheer trial and error they stumbled upon which particular, imaginary offense "against the people" their interrogators had pre-determined them guilty of. | | | All of which is lost on the "new American gulag" crowd because they don't really care about prisoner abuse. |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps: Books |
| | Gulag shows how the massive camp network, which eventually stretched across all of the Soviet Union?s twelve time zones and saw some eighteen million people pass through it, became a country within a country: a separate civilization with its own laws, customs, literature, folklore, slang and morality. | | | Applebaum also reveals in her lucid, and painstakingly researched book, much about the rationale behind the Soviet system and its attitude towards its people at all levels, with disgraced ex-party members often occupying cells or camp barracks alongside peasant farmers and criminals, who were commonly favoured by the camp staff. | | | Anne Applebaum reveals how life was lived within this shadow country: how prisoners laboured (often mutilating or infecting themselves to avoid work), how they ate, where they slept, how they died, how they survived. |
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| | Hoover Institution Newsletter - Fall 1998 |
| | The gulag project is a continuation of an earlier program begun in 1992 to microfilm the Soviet Communist Party and State Archives. | | | RCHIVES TO The Hoover Institution and the State Archives of the Russian Federation recently concluded an agreement to publish the records of the Soviet gulag, the system of prison camps in which some 20 million people perished during Stalin's rule. | | | The project will reproduce files from the archives of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party, the Ministry of Justice, and the Main Directorate for Places of Detention, the state agency that operated the prison camps. |
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http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/pubaffairs/newsletter/98fall/gulag.html
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| | OpinionJournal - Leisure & Arts |
| | In the Gulag prisoners were beaten up, shot by the thousands, but there were many survivors. | | | It reported the claimed results, in antisocial cases, of human "corrective labor." The book appeared in English too, in New York and London--but had to be withdrawn after a few years when some of the writers had been shot, together with its main hero, Camp Chief Firin. | | | But there is only one picture not associated with the lethal Far Eastern Arctic--a portrayal of a prisoner being led to execution in a metropolitan underground passage--probably based on the fate of Mr. |
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http://www.opinionjournal.com/la?id=110005653
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| | CNN.com - Official says hundreds of U.S. citizens likely died in gulags - Feb 11, 2005 |
| | Soviet authorities imprisoned millions who were considered "enemies of the state" and forced them to perform hard labor in the network of camps in remote areas of the country. | | | Researchers for the U.S.-Russia Joint Commission on POW/MIAs have been investigating unconfirmed reports of Americans who were held prisoner in the so-called gulags. | | | A separate internal Pentagon document has concluded "there is a high probability" that American citizens and U.S. and British prisoners of war died in the camps. |
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http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/02/11/gulag.report
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| | Democracy Now! Guantanamo Bay: A "Gulag Of Our Times" or a "Model Facility"? A Debate on the U.S. Prison & Amnesty ... |
| | The gulags are outfits where political prisoners, dissidents are holed in, worked to death, starved to death. | | | After all, we have an archipelago of prisons around the world, many of them secret, in which people are being held in incommunicado detention and which they are being severely mistreated in some cases. | | | And, the group says, if those investigations support prosecution, the governments should arrest any official who enters their territory and begin legal proceedings against them. |
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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/01/1441204
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| | The American Spectator |
| | Gulag prisoners were systemically starved, beaten, and forced to labor in sub-zero weather. | | | Zubaida Khan would have been amazed to learn that the 30 million inmates of the secret Soviet camps were by and large political prisoners, writers, and dissidents like Solzhenitsyn (arrested for writing a private letter criticizing Stalin), or Soviet soldiers welcomed home from years in German prison camps with a one-way ticket to Siberia. | | | Amnesty has obviously chosen to risk its credibility. |
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| | Leonas Cerskus: "The story of Lithuanian soldier". Links. |
| | Magadan was the entry point into the GULAG world for millions of political prisoners, and so, for a large part of humanity, the very names Magadan and Kolyma came to have a resonance like that of Auschwitz, Treblinka, or Hiroshima." | | | Man Is Wolf to Man: Surviving the Gulag Memoir about Gulag in Kolyma by Polish Jew Janusz Bardach. | | | BBC interview with Jacques Rossi, one of the many communists to find themselves exiled to one of the infamous Russian Gulags. |
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| | http://www.qando.net/ - American "Gulag" |
| | The Soviet gulag, by contrast, was a massive forced labor complex consisting of thousands of concentration camps and hundreds of exile villages through which more than 20 million people passed during Stalin's lifetime and whose existence was not acknowledged until after his death. | | | We have done so not only because the phenomenon is disturbing in its own right but also because it gives undemocratic regimes around the world an excuse to justify their own use of torture and indefinite detention and because it damages the U.S. government's ability to promote human rights. | | | Though the bureau’s New York office and the Central Intelligence Agency cleared the man of any terrorist connections by mid-November 2001, F.B.I. headquarters did not clear him for release from incarceration until more than three months later because of an "administrative oversight," the report said. |
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http://www.qando.net/details.aspx?Entry=1856
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| | The Gulag Archipelago - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Gulag Archipelago, probably the most powerful and influential account of the Soviet prison system, is a three volume series written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn based on extensive research, as well as his own experiences as a prisoner in a GULAG labor camp. | | | These prisoners were either ones that Solzhenitsyn knew personally or whose story he heard from others. | | | "GULAG" is an acronym for the administration of the Soviet prison labor camp system. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago
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| | Ezra Klein: Gulag Gulag Gulag |
| | This rather broad, even all-encompassing definition seems to describe rather neatly some of the offenses committed by the U.S. and its allies at Guantanamo and other prison facilities and secret torture rooms around the globe (destruction of families, years in exile, unnecessary deaths, etc.). | | | Jun 3, 2005 4:08:58 PM The GULag, or Chief Directorate of Corrective Labor Camps, dealt exclusively with people convicted of "political crimes". | | | A place or situation of great suffering and hardship, likened to the atmosphere in a prison system or a forced labor camp. |
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http://ezraklein.typepad.com/blog/2005/06/gulag_gulag_gul.html
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| | The Gulag |
| | By 1934 the Gulag, or Main Directorate for Corrective Labor Camps, then under the Cheka's successor organization the NKVD, had several million inmates. | | | Forced labor camps continued to exist, although on a small scale, into the Gorbachev period, and the government even opened some camps to scrutiny by journalists and human rights activists. | | | The Gulag also served as a source of workers for economic projects independent of the NKVD, which contracted its prisoners out to various economic enterprises. |
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| | The Jawa Report: The Gulag Archipelego vs. Amnesty International's 'Gulags' |
| | By invoking the term gulag, Amnesty International wishes to convey the notion that what is happening to the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay is somehow comparable to the Soviet labor camp prison system of the Stalinist era. | | | Unlike survivors of the holocaust, though, who have found voice in the state of Israel, in US based interest-groups, or who have captured the fascination of Hollywood, the story of the gulags remains largely unheard of for the vast majority of the American public. | | | For instance, the deadly Kolyma gulag was really a series of forced labor camps in and around the massive gold mine and not a single prison. |
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| | Gulag Archipelago, The |
| | The Gulag Archipelago is an exhaustive and compelling account based on Solzhenitsyn's own eight years in Soviet prison camps, on other prisoners' stories committed to his photographic memory while in detention, and on letters and historical sources. | | | Solzhenitsyn used the word archipelago as a metaphor for the camps, which were scattered through the sea of civil society like a chain of islands extending "from the Bering Strait almost to the Bosporus." | | | Gulag is a Russian acronym for the Soviet government agency that supervised the vast network of forced-labour camps. |
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| | Soviet Gulags |
| | People sent to the Gulags included peasants who were accused of "individualistic tendencies" and opposed the establishment of collective farms. | | | These were later reopened by Joseph Stalin and opponents of his regime were sent to what became known as Glavnoye Upravleniye Lagere (Gulag). | | | Others were sent to labour camps because of their religious beliefs. |
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| | Gulag Study |
| | The Gulag Study is a compilation of reports asserting that U.S. servicemen were held in Soviet camps and prisons. | | | The study draws upon accounts from varied sources, many of whom claim to have been incarcerated in the Soviet Gulag system. | | | Additionally, JCSD has conducted interviews with former inmates of the Gulag, camp guards, workers and administrators, academicians and veterans in Russia and other states of the former Soviet Union. |
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| | Hyperbole and Human Rights |
| | What's maddening is that by reaching for the dramatic, overwrought and, yes, outrageous gulag metaphor, Amnesty's Khan let Bush slip right by the questions raised by American practices in Guantanamo and whether Guantanamo's problems are helping the "people who hate America" in their battle for world opinion. | | | Because some words -- gulag is one, Holocaust is certainly another -- are freighted with such profound, chilling and specific historical meaning that they should never be used as attention-grabbing devices. | | | Gulag also came to stand for "the Soviet repressive system itself," including "the arrests, the interrogations, the transport in unheated cattle cars, the forced labor, the destruction of families, the years spent in exile, the early and unnecessary deaths." |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/02/AR2005060201749.html
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| | International Coalition of Historic Sites of Conscience |
| | Known as the Gulag, the system of prison camps symbolized, for 70 years, the repressive and totalitarian political system of the Soviet Union. | | | The Gulag Museum is dedicated to promoting democratic values and civil consciousness in contemporary Russian society through the preservation of the last Soviet political camp as a vivid reminder of repression, and an important historical and cultural monument. |
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| | Global Gulag - New World Order Watch - Another BATR site! |
| | The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries." | | | The Global Gulag is Upon Us Global Gulag is here - how will you fight it? | | | Are you up to the task to learn and combat this foe of Liberty? |
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| | The Australian: Guantanamo like gulag: Amnesty (archived) |
| | The report cited the pictures last year of abuse of detainees at Iraq's US-run Abu Ghraib prison, which it said were never adequately investigated, and the detention without trial of "enemy combatants" at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. | | | In Washington, the White House said the report was "ridiculous and unsupported by the facts". | | | FOUR years after the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, human rights are in retreat worldwide and the United States bears most responsibility, Amnesty International has said, calling Guantanamo prison "the gulag of our times". |
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| | Protesting too much on 'gulag' - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - Op-ed - News |
| | Accountability should start with the resignation of Donald Rumsfeld, as he reportedly contemplated after the scandals of Abu Ghraib. | | | Unfortunately, all of the above has been well documented, and not just by Amnesty International. | | | Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said it was an insult to the US military that had done so much to bring people liberty. |
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http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/06/10/protesting_too_much_on_gulag
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| | Doubleday Books Gulag by Anne Applebaum |
| | The Gulag—the vast array of Soviet concentration camps—was a system of repression and punishment whose rationalized evil and institutionalized inhumanity were rivaled only by the Holocaust. | | | -Iris Chang, author of The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II "Combining meticulous research with myriad accounts of survivors, Gulag: A History illuminates a shadowed world in which millions perished under unspeakable conditions. | | | "Anne Applebaum's Gulag is the first up-to-date scholarly study of the central terror institution of the Soviet regime. |
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http://www.randomhouse.com/doubleday/catalog/display.pperl?0767900561
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| | First Wave: Gulag - TV.com |
| | He suspected it happened during his trial - when he was tortured for helping me and branded a traitor to his own kind. | | | He told me he suspected the Gua put him in the pocket intentionally - some warped alien version of a gulag. | | | Tell the world what you think of Gulag. |
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http://www.tv.com/first-wave/gulag/episode/46298/summary.html
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| | Ezra Klein: Gulag |
| | Millions died in the Gulags and were domestic prisoners. | | | Those who make comparisons to the Nazis have been so prolific that we now have Godwin's law in an attempt to prevent this. | | | My point is while any abuses in Gitmo may be unfair and unethical, if true, the comparison of any of these to the Russian GULAGS is crap. |
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| | The Seattle Times: Editorials & Opinion: An American gulag |
| | The Bush administration is not only doing all this now, but making systematic plans to create an American gulag of prisons and prisoners without names and cells without numbers. | | | The U.S. plan to lock up suspected terrorists for life in secret locations without evidence is a horrifying development. | | | From the old Soviet Union to Communist China to the banana republics of Latin America and Castro's Cuba, that's what others do. |
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorialsopinion/2002142143_indefed06.html
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| | Amnesty leader sticks by 'gulag' report - Nation/Politics - The Washington Times, America's ... |
| | It compared the U.S. detention facility at U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the gulag, the Soviet-era work camps in which millions of people are believed to have died from forced work or planned murder. | | | Yesterday Rep. Mike Pence, Indiana Republican, said Amnesty should either retract or clarify its comments. | | | Three weeks ago, Amnesty released a report harshly critical of U.S. human rights policy in the war on terror. |
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http://washingtontimes.com/national/20050610-113618-7373r.htm
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| | James S. Robbins on North Korea on National Review Online |
| | Amnesty’s 2005 country report on North Korea does not go into the camp system, though it does highlight some of the other human rights abuses visited on North Korean citizens — denial of free expression, starvation, torture, extrajudicial executions, and trafficking in women. | | | The non-government U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea has put together a comprehensive review entitled “The Hidden Gulag: Exposing North Korea’s Prison Camps,” comprised mainly of testimony from former inmates who escaped the camp system, along with satellite photos of the reputed camps. | | | Anne Applebaum, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag: A History noted in the Washington Post that Amnesty has sunk quite a bit from the days when it was revealing what was going on in the actual Gulags. |
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| | Don't Let Me Stop You: The Gulag of Our Time |
| | After all, to proclaim that 'Guantanamo is our generation’s concentration camps' would have been just as historically coherent, and she would have even been able to get through to those historically-dense red staters. | | | After all, the confidence that Khan has that average Joe Bushvoter would know what the gulag was- or so-called gulag, as CNN online so-felicitously phrases the work/death camps- is remarkable. | | | This is a paragraph of text that could go in the sidebar. |
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http://dontletmestopyou.blogspot.com/2005/05/gulag-of-our-time.html
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| | Death, terror in N. Korea gulag - January 2003: Crisis in the Koreas - MSNBC.com |
| | 15, 2003 - In the far north of North Korea, in remote locations not far from the borders with China and Russia, a gulag not unlike the worst labor camps built by Mao and Stalin in the last century holds some 200,000 men, women and children accused of political crimes. | | | A month-long investigation by NBC News, including interviews with former prisoners, guards and U.S. and South Korean officials, revealed the horrifying conditions these people must endure — conditions that shock even those North Koreans accustomed to the near-famine conditions of Kim Jong Il’s realm. | | | Another satellite photo shows a coal mine at the Chungbong camp where prisoners are worked to exhaustion in a giant pit. |
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| | CBS News Torture In The U.S. Gulag June 4, 2005 14:00:02 |
| | The same question now shadows Washington: Two doctors who examined American student Abu Ali, awaiting trial for allegedly plotting to assassinate Bush, have concluded that the young man was tortured in Saudi Arabia after his arrest. | | | Guantánamo's hundreds do not compare with Stalin's millions, but the gulag is a fair analogy -- how else to describe an international network of cells and interrogation centers holding prisoners without charge, for indeterminate terms, beyond reach of any court? | | | But Bush's torture system and his obsession with secret executive authority are shaped by the contradictions of democracy: courts that won't cooperate, legislators who ask questions, reporters who drag secrets into the light. |
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| | Anne Applebaum -- Gulag: A History |
| | Based on archives, interviews, new research and recently published memoirs, the book explains the role that the camps played in the Soviet political and economic system. | | | Compared with the volumes and volumes written about the Holocaust, the literature on the gulag is thin. | | | GULAG: A History is a narrative account of the origins and development of the Soviet concentration camps, from Lenin to Gorbachev. |
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http://www.anneapplebaum.com/gulag/gulag.html
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| | Amnesty: Guantanamo 'gulag' must close - (United Press International) |
| | The 100 or more "ghost detainees" -- according to official U.S. sources -- at the base who were being detained unregistered and incommunicado were reminiscent of the "disappearances" common under the regimes of Latin American dictators in the past, she said. | | | The U.S. detention center was "the gulag of our times" and evoked images of Soviet repression, Amnesty International Secretary-General Irene Khan said at the London launch of the human rights group's 2005 report. | | | London, England, May. 25 (UPI) -- Amnesty International called on the United States Wednesday to close Guantanamo Bay and either release or charge all detainees held there. |
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| | The Black Commentator - Mass Black Incarceration is White Societal Aggression - Issue 82 |
| | Close to one in three young Black men will spend time in the Gulag — literally, the worst imprisonment odds in the world. One out of every eight prisoners on the planet is African American, although African Americans make up about one-half of one percent of humanity. | | | 50,000 life-sentences later, there is no evidence that the measure has “worked” — unless the purpose was to incarcerate as many non-whites as possible for as long as possible, in which case, the American Gulag is working just fine. | | | Americans are quick to point to the Siberian prison colonies of the old Soviet Union — the “Gulag” — as evidence of a truly evil system. |
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| | Rising Hegemon: Gulag |
| | "Gulag" is an acronym for "Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps," which was in charge of the Soviet Penal System, and it was described by Solzhenitsyn as an "archipelago'' or series of "islands" (camps, prisons, detention centers, etc) which are spread through the whole of the Russian land like a country within a country. | | | So, as Susie tells us, the use of the term by Amnesty International is done with a purpose: | | | Angst filled missives on the fate of American Democracy -- half-hearted or completely botched attempts at humor and constant, unadulterated whining! |
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| | Random House Books Gulag by Anne Applebaum |
| | The Gulag--a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners--was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. | | | A searing attack on the corruption and the viciousness that seemed to rule the system and a testimonial to the resilience of the Russian people. | | | In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution, through its expansion under Stalin, to its collapse in the era of glasnost. |
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http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?1400034094
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| | Solovetski Islands: The Gulag's Archipelago |
| | Solovki began as a detention camp in 1921 under Lenin. | | | The locals you meet come from different parts of the former Soviet Union: a national park warder from Belorussia, a school teacher from Siberia, an electrician from the Black Sea port of Odessa. | | | During Solovki's gulag days, the inhabitants were obliged to find alternative living arrangements on the mainland. |
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http://www.anatol.org/projects/travel/russia/solovki-archipelago.html
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| | Technorati Tag: gulag |
| | This page shows blog posts, photos, and links that have been tagged gulag. | | | Become a member to save searches in a Watchlist. | | | Save on Gulag Get four exciting history books for $4. |
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http://www.technorati.com/tag/gulag
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| | Why Now?: GULag |
| | In the Soviet Union you had to be accused of a "crime" and be tried by a "court" before you were sent to the GULag for a stated period of time. | | | You were given an attorney to represent you at trial and you were "released" at the end of your sentence. | | | The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it. |
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http://wnbld.blogspot.com/2005/06/gulag.html
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