Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What Noble had to tell about was Vorkuta, a name that is likely to live in infamy with Dachau and Belsen. Marchuk and Noble had been held for years in Vorkuta slave camp, and they brought out word that a handful of other Americans are still there...
...past three years, Germans, Russians, Spaniards and Greeks have also been released from Vorkuta; some have told their stories to interrogators, others have filled twelve issues of a refugee magazine with firsthand descriptions of the Soviet slave camp system. Together their stories present a well-documented picture...
...mountain passes of India, a fact that India's top soldiers worry about, but India's top politicians (Nehru & Co.) prefer not to discuss out loud. The new highways, giving Red China access to the undeveloped mineral resources of Tibet, also present impressive evidence of what a slave economy can do: the roads took 3½ years to build; their combined length (2,722 miles) is almost twice as long as China's ancient Great Wall and more than three times as long as the Burma Road. The Sikang-Tibet Highway runs 1,410 miles across...
...Before 1936, Buenos Aires was notorious as a main terminal in the international white-slave trade, and bordellos flourished in every Argentine city. One of the most lavish was Madam Safe's spacious chalet in the city of Rosario. The staircases were marble, the curtains red velvet, the bedclothes silk, the girls mainly French or Polish, and the going rate about the equivalent of an average white-collar worker's weekly wage...
...calls himself a democrat and a socialist and no doubt he does so in all earnestness, but every psychologist knows that the mind is, ultimately, slave to the heart . . . A little twist and Nehru might turn dictator, sweeping aside the paraphernalia of a slow-moving democracy . . . Jawahar has all the makings of a dictator in him-vast popularity, a strong will, ability, hardness, an intolerance of others and a certain contempt for the weak and the inefficient . . . In this revolutionary epoch, Caesarism is always at the door. Is it not possible that Jawahar might fancy himself as a Caesar?" Nehru...