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Word: slaving (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Between New York and Moscow, words like "slave" and "phony" flew back & forth. The New York Times's pugnacious managing editor and Sunday columnist, Edwin L. (for Leland) James, and the Communist Pravda's choleric co-editor, David losifovich Zaslavsky, were locked in battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Let Freedom Ring | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...widely peddled notion that Russia's dictatorship of the proletariat has lifted proletarians to new heights of human dignity. The Russian line is: We have liquidated capitalism and thereby ended the exploitation of workers. The reality is that the Soviet economy rests squarely on a base of slave labor and that the Soviet Union is the greatest slave state in history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nothing to Lose but Their Chains | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...extensive.*Author Dallin (CoAuthor Nicolaevsky contributed only one chapter to this book) lists a bibliography of ten packed pages on the subject, including Vladimir Tchernavin's unforgettable I Speak for the Silent Prisoners of the Soviet (Hale, Cushman & Flint, Boston, 1935). But until now, most of the slave-camp exposes consisted of narratives of personal experience and scattered corroboration drawn from between-the-lines interpretations of official documents. What Author Dallin has done is to bring all of this material together in a thoroughly documented volume. Documentation impedes the narrative flow and hampers the book's organization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nothing to Lose but Their Chains | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...Many Slaves? Dallin asks and tries to answer the big question: How many forced-labor camps and prisoners are there in Russia? After compiling a list of 125 camps, scattered from Murmansk to Vladivostok, he has to confess that the catalogue is far from complete. But it is by far the biggest list yet compiled. Examining all estimates, Dallin concludes that Soviet slave-labor camps contain not less than 12,000,000 men, women & children. But he cites other estimates whose figures have soared as high as 30 million. Two of the biggest slave-labor camps: Solovetski Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nothing to Lose but Their Chains | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

Charged with fostering an "economic spy system" for Adolf Hitler, 22 directors of the billion dollar I. C. Farben chemical trust went on trial for war crimes yesterday at Nuernberg, Germany. The Farbon officials heard the U.S. prosecution assert that they had fostered Hitler's war aims, cagerly exploited slave labor, and waged aggressive war from their laboratories...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Security Council Members Split Over Anglo-Egyptian Nile Dispute; Greek Leaders Attempt Coalition | 8/28/1947 | See Source »

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