Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Alexander Pasternak passage referred to was cited only to point out that Boris Pasternak 's literary imagination may well have been stimulated by the sight of his brother, in an NKVD uniform, working on a canal built by slave labor during the Great Terror...
...There are East-West ramifications to the deal and legitimate arguments against the project: it is particularly unfortunate, for example, that western governments are in a sense subsidizing the pipeline construction by guaranteeing low-cost credit to the Soviet Union for the deal. Allegations that the Soviets are using slave labor to build the pipeline cast further doubts. Nevertheless, the stiffening of Administration opposition to the deal in the face of European reaction raises disturbing questions about what Reagan perceives to be the proper sphere of activity for the U.S. and the nature of the alliance...
...Mossman has used to illuminate the letters, we also learn that Pasternak's brother Alexander was a member of the Cheka, the first Soviet secret police, during the Great Purge. An architect, Alexander helped design and supervise the construction of the Moscow-Volga Canal, which was built by slave labor in 1936. According to the diary, when Alexander was slated to receive a medal from Soviet Chairman Mikhail Kalinin for his work on the canal, Cousin Sasha on the eve of his arrest pleaded with the Chekist to try to save his wife. "Sasha wasted no time in asking...
...veteran slave driver instinctively picks out Mayo as his bad boy, and the two grow to hate each other effortlessly. As much as Foley demeans the trainee. Mayo feels compelled to struggle on, to prove to himself more than anyone else that he can outlast his opponent When the two part company at film's end. Ensign Mayo concedes without emotion that he wouldn't have persevered without Foley's reverse-psychology butt-kicking. Gosset draws his lips into a by-now familiar tight line and hisses. "Get the fuck out of here...
...less patience with twolegged animals, particularly when they ran athletics into the ground. George Steinbrenner was George III. Avery Brundage and his flunkies on the International Olympic Committee were the "waxworks." He idolized owners like Connie Mack and Branch Rickey but later sided with the players "in the slave cabins...