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...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...
...crackdowns, especially under Stalin. In 1932 the dictator announced a Five- Year Plan to eliminate religious belief. All but a tiny handful of the 26,000 mosques that flourished before 1917 were closed, destroyed or turned into nightclubs and warehouses. Thousands of mullahs were shot or sent to the Gulag...
...Times was about what to do with the Trump story. In that same week the Times also found the need to review Nelson Mandela's performance. SOME FIND MANDELA'S VISION LIMITED, said the headline, four days after the man had emerged from 27 years in the African Gulag. Mandela had himself become a celebrity to be regarded through the cynical eye of this New Journalism, the subject of its infectious, abbreviated tone, the obsession with appearance as opposed to substance. These are the warning signs of meltdown. Ciao, Nelson. Hello, Donald. Hello, Ivana...
Music and joy have always been "Slava" Rostropovich's great goals, but he is also remarkable for his repeated refusals to bow down before the Kremlin. When Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn came under fire for his books on the Soviet Gulag, Rostropovich took him into his house. He also wrote a letter attacking the censors who banned Solzhenitsyn's work. "For 48 hours after I wrote that letter," Rostropovich recalls, "Galina did not sleep but cried. She told me, 'You have the right to destroy yourself, but what right do you have to destroy my life and the lives of your daughters...
...corpse of one woman lay the seven-month fetus that had been ripped from her womb. But horror was not the only emotion expressed in Rumania last week. In the village of Denta, near Timisoara, church bells were pealing. A procession of villagers, many of whom looked like Gulag veterans in their shabby overalls and torn jackets, streamed out of the small Orthodox church and gathered on the village green, singing in thanksgiving joy. A horse-drawn cart clattered by, and its euphoric driver shouted, "Long live the liberation...