Word: gulag
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...within his country. He is implicated in the jailing of political dissidents, in the harsh and arbitrary application of capital punishment, in the subjugation of Tibet, in the construction and maintaining of a vast system of prison labor camps comparable to some of the worst years of the Soviet gulag. He is one of the most inappropriate guests in all of Harvard's past to speak in Sanders Theatre...
...dirges about life's rottenness, sung by grungesters crushed under the weight of money, fame, drugs and women, that any happy music seems like ad jingles. Even female singers, traditionally dainty types, got the message. Doesn't Alanis Morissette sound as if she's performing at riflepoint in a gulag...
...intellectual and physical repression of the populace through a sham of a justice system, a terrorist police force and a corresponding expansive network of laogai, the Chinese brand of gulag, Deng was an enemy of liberty itself--and he well deserves the authoritarian status he was this week denied...
...small child, Betty Zhang watched zealous Red Guards beat her mother. At 16 she put up posters on Beijing's Democracy Wall and organized demonstrations in her home village. At 22 she was locked up in a Chinese gulag, judged without trial to be a counter-revolutionary subversive. For months she was confined to a dank room the size of a bed, spending her days in solitary silence, enduring torture with an electric prod and the painful, gratuitous removal of bone marrow from her spine. Released in March 1990 after more than six years in prison, Zhang was denied...
After all the horrors of the Soviet Union--the gulag, the secret police, the famines, the totalitarian control over every aspect of life--is it possible that the citizens of Russia would voluntarily return power to the Communists? In the coming weeks they may very well do just that, by electing a Communist as their President. What would induce a people to take such a step? The Russians have enjoyed unprecedented tastes of freedom over the past few years, and the process began so hopefully, even heroically. Now the descendants of Stalin's victims are poised to welcome as their...