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Danny-Joe Driscoll San Francisco As an Estonian whose parents fled So viet persecution during World War II, I abhor the Soviet government's repression of human rights. Still, its people are hu man beings and deserve to be respected as such, if not by their leaders, then by us. It's high time for Americans to take the trouble to look with interest at life in the U.S.S.R...
...attempt brought pride to the camp-even when the severed head and right arm (for fingerprints) of the escapee were brought back by the police and army units that had scoured desert, tundra and taiga for him. Those who survived capture were likely to try again, like the legendary Estonian Georgi Tenno. Between his ultimately unsuccessful breakouts, prisoners would wonderingly ask Tenno, "What do you expect to find on the outside?" His reply: "Freedom, of course! A whole day in the taiga without chains-that's what I call freedom...
...Estonian lawyer to whom Solzhenitsyn attributes his conversion from Marxism to democratic principles was Arnold Susi (named in The Gulag Archipelago), a member of the last legitimate Estonian government on national soil. He could not make it to freedom abroad in 1944 when the Russians again invaded Estonia, and was subsequently arrested by the Soviets solely because he was a well-known national figure. He was sent to prisons and labor camps in Russia, where he met Alexander Solzhenitsyn...
Solzhenitsyn also became aware at that time of alternatives to Communism. From an Estonian lawyer he heard about the democracy that was finally crushed by the Soviets in 1944. "I had never before dreamed that I would become interested in Estonia or bourgeois democracy," he writes. "It was not clear why, but I began to like it all, and the new information was stored away in my mind." His education continued as he learned of the mass arrests that had swept millions of peasants, as well as hundreds of thousands of party members and Soviet intellectuals into prison camps...
Once inside the hall, a world of international sights and sounds unfolds. 26 nationality and ethnic groups will perform on a giant stage throughout the five days. Included are Armenian, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Slavic, Spanish, Swedish and Ukrainian folk dance troupes from Boston, Cambridge and surrounding communities...