Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...individual dignity and individual worth may seem less pressing or less vital to the West than to Soviet Russia. It is true that in a society which would greatly or entirely subordinate the individual to the collective and its needs and its goals, the techniques of suppression are more brutal, more widespread, the problem itself more acute, the affirmation of the "single one" far more dangerous, far more difficult. The democratic nations of the West, it may be argued, with freedom of expression, of publication, free access to information, representative government, and laws that can be protested, revised, repealed...
...Bronze Stars as an infantry sergeant in the Pacific. As a policeman, Rochford once walked into a house in pursuit of a sniper who had killed two cops-and he walked out with his man. But his record is not without blemish: he was overall commander during the brutal police clashes with demonstrators at the 1968 Democratic Convention, when his men got out of control. Rochford was also in charge of the police who fired a volley of shots-wounding one youth-in a riot at a 1970 rock festival in Grant Park...
Instead, they turned on others in the dissident movement in a brutal three-year drive to imprison its leaders or confine them in police-run madhouses...
Solzhenitsyn regards the brutal fate of these returned P.O.W.s as one of the most frightful of Stalin's crimes. "They were called traitors, " he writes of them, "but they did not betray the motherland. The motherland betrayed them, and betrayed them three times." The first betrayal was Stalin's bumbling strategy, which nearly lost the war and allowed the Germans to capture vast numbers of prisoners. Then these Soviet P.O.W.s were virtually abandoned by Stalin and left to die in Nazi camps. Finally the survivors were lured home by the oft-repeated promise of forgiveness...
...near the top of the canyon are the most wretched hovels, those of the peasants most recently arrived from the altiplano. The weather in this part of the city, which is 12,500 feet above sea level, is pleasant on a clear day; at night, however, the cold is brutal. The air is very thin, and breathing becomes difficult after any strenuous activity. As the bus descends along the zig-zag road that hugs the rocky slope, the hovels give way to slightly more sturdy but still miserable houses, crowded together on filthy unpaved alleys. Eucalyptus trees begin to appear...