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...Communist regime that would kill even more indiscriminately. But if Salvadoran rightists do not believe that there is a risk of an aid cutoff, how can they ever be persuaded to curb their terrorism? Said one commissioner: "We never really resolved the dilemma of the death squads vs. the Gulag...
...self-evident that the year 1984 will not in the least resemble the nightmare anticipated by Orwell. Humanity has nowhere been transformed into an amorphous mass of automatons ruled by invisible forces, a Stanlinist Gulag pushed to its logical conclusion and extended to the world at large. This has not occurred even in Communist countries. Quite the contrary: although their regimes remain frozen in totalitarian molds, their reality has been persistently evolving toward more liberal forms. The world is certainly a freer place today that it was in 1948 when Orwell wrote his anti-utopian novel...
Modern Soviet labor camps (or "gulags") first arose under Joseph Stalin's regime. His secret police rounded up the inmates--mostly Stalin's political opponents--and imprisoned them in a series of camps known as the "Gulag Archipelago." At their peak in the late 1940's, slave labor camps held as many as 15 million Russians. The exact numbers remain unknown--thousands may have died of starvation, cold, or disease. Interviews of recently released gulag inmates have revealed that conditions today are in violation of nearly every recognized standard of health and safety...
...number of gulag prisoners has sharply declined since the 1940's but slave labor remains an active component of the Russian work force. Growing evidence suggests that the Soviets used forced labor in building their Siberian gas pipeline to Western Europe. According to a Central Intelligence Agency report prepared at the request of the Senate, more than 100 labor camps dot the pipeline's route. The United Nations International Organization has publicly accused Moscow of employing slave labor on the trans-Siberian pipeline: and French and West German leaders have expressed deep reservations about the alleged Soviet behavior. Concluded Under...
...private life burgeoned. The Pathet Lao appropriated livestock and went so far as to require young people to obtain approval from party cadres before falling in love. More than 40,000 former royalist military officers and other "enemies of the state" were banished to "reeducation camps" in a jungle gulag that, in proportion to the respective populations, was larger than Stalin...