Word: gulag
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...points of conflict are, as he put it, "real," and human rights are one of the most inflamed. Some 800 participants in the democracy movement remain in prison, many of them in deplorable conditions. The Chinese gulag is still crowded, and its inmates turned out some of the goods that helped build China's $10.4 billion trade surplus with the U.S. last year. Both the prison labor and the trade surplus are sore points in Washington...
INTERROGATION. A Polish woman (Krystyna Janda) is arrested and tortured by the state, then bears her inquisitor's child -- a poignant metaphor for a generation of Poles sired in fear. Ryszard Bugajski's political horror movie, banned for eight years, plays like a suicide note smuggled out of the Gulag...
...felt enormous respect for him, since reinforced by publication of his epic work The Gulag Archipelago. Real life is never simple, however, and our relations are now difficult -- perhaps unavoidably so, since we are not at all alike and differ markedly on questions of principle...
Right after New Year 1974, Solzhenitsyn's 13-year-old stepson visited our apartment, disappeared into the bathroom and returned with a book that had been concealed under his clothing: The Gulag Archipelago. The book was a shattering experience, evoking a somber world of gray camps surrounded by barbed wire, investigators' offices and torture chambers, icy mines in Kolyma and Norilsk...
...Solzhenitsyn was taken from his home and placed under arrest. The next day a group gathered in our apartment and drafted the "Moscow Appeal" demanding Solzhenitsyn's release and an investigation of the crimes described in The Gulag Archipelago. But Solzhenitsyn was expelled from the country and flown to West Germany...