Word: gulag
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Much has been written concerning Mather’s hideous, Gulag-like appearance. Mather house is about as picturesque as downtown New Haven, as welcoming to students as Fenway’s bleachers to Yankee fans...
Natan Sharansky certainly appreciated those two famous words. He was a prominent Russian scientist and human-rights activist who was arrested in 1977 during a typical Soviet crackdown on “dissidents.” Imprisoned in a gulag labor camp, his heart swelled when he heard the news of Reagan’s address. In Peggy Noonan’s new book “When Character Was King,” Sharansky remembers, “There was fear in the West to deal with the Soviet Union,” but “Reagan...
...were supposed to improve the lives of communism's huddled masses; instead most Russians today are considerably worse off than they had been under the red flag. No individual more memorably personified Russian antipathy to communism than Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the writer who turned his horrific experiences inside Stalin's gulag into the defining novel of the Soviet era. And if Solzhenitsyn was a moral compass for Russian anti-communism, then his views on post-Soviet Russia offer pause for thought: "One might have imagined that things could not have got worse than the point to which Communism had brought...
...traveled three times to protest in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. The last time, in November, she took her four-year-old daughter and unfurled a yellow banner reading THE FALUN LAW IS THE UNIVERSAL LAW! Police jailed Liu and threatened to dispatch her to China's labor-camp gulag. Her parents, terrified, begged her to disavow her beliefs; her husband smacked her face; her boss threatened her job. Liu waved them away. Then someone brought her weeping daughter to jail, and Liu's will broke. In writing, she promised never to protest again...
...listen to the AM conservatives, you would think they'd been consigned to a gulag and were trying to smuggle messages out to Radio Free America. Anything they don't agree with is part of a vast left-wing conspiracy. Malzberg (who believes the Republic is so threatened that he stops his show each night for 30 seconds of "silent prayer") hints darkly that Bill Clinton wanted to ride the anxiety over Y2K to a state of martial law. Hannity, when not paying tongue-tied tribute to Mrs. Clinton's defeated rival, Rick Lazio, and his wife ("They should hang...