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DIED. GUSTAW HERLING, 81, Polish essayist and dissident whose 1953 book, A World Apart, captured in harrowing if dispassionate detail the horrors of his experience in the Soviet gulag; in Naples, Italy...
...Being sent to Radcliffe when it was time to get a House, that was sort of like being sent to Siberia," says Forman, who was a varsity football player and is now a doctor. "It was like you were assigned to the Gulag. It was horrible...
...acknowledge that maybe it doesn't do everything wrong after all. If last year's success repeats, twice as many students as voted in this fall's election will flock to the MAC Quad to see their termbill dollars hard at work. They'll enjoy the infamous beer-gulag, herds of elephant ears?...
After World War II, the Soviet Union invited all its emigres to come home and help rebuild the motherland. Most of them were instantly killed or sent to the Gulag, victims of Stalinist paranoia. This complex, heartbreaking film recounts the brutal struggle of one couple to survive. Oleg Menchikov plays a doctor, valuable to the state, who gets along by pretending to go along. Sandrine Bonnaire is his French-born wife, on whom the state visits its worst depredations. But East-West is more than their story; it is a great, gray epic of a society wasted and terrorized...
...coveted invitation came. Alone of his classmates, Putin was recruited to join the Soviet secret police that had marched into Hungary, crushed the Prague Spring, imprisoned dissidents in the Gulag. The service offered a privileged lifestyle and a chance to see the forbidden world of the West. Putin was trained in the ways of the spy and given the perks reserved for the communist elite. He was eventually placed in the First Chief Directorate (foreign intelligence, not dissident surveillance) in Leningrad, and there he seemed stuck for nine years, evidently not the top of his class. Sometime during these years...