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...zombie is force-fed a paste made of sweet potato and datura, a plant known to Haitians as zombie cucumber. Datura, says Davis, is "one of the most potent hallucinogenic plants known." Thus the zombie is led away in a state of intoxication, usually to work as a slave. Narcisse, who spent several years as a slave on a sugar plantation, reports that zombies do not make very good workers. Says he: "The slightest chore required great effort." He reports that his senses were so distorted that the smallest stream seemed a wide and unfordable sea, as though "my eyes...
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...
Furthermore, as Soviet leaders discover the economic advantages of using cheap slave labor, the number of prisoners may increase once again. As crime and alcoholism rise, authorities simply ship away these twin social problems to remote regions of Siberia. The CIA report also notes, "Forced labor is thus likely to become a more important means of relieving serious manpower shortages, particularly in inhospitable areas." Even more sinister, Vietnamese and other Asians form a growing contingent of slave laborers, a partial "payment" of Vietnam's huge debt to the Soviet Union...
...credibility as human rights advocates. The Soviet items included in von Raab's proposal (automobile parts, clothing, camera lenses, wire fences, and mattresses) represent an insignificant part of U.S.-Soviet trade. A ban on such imports, especially if coordinated with our allies, might substantially reduce the economic attractiveness of slave labor, while having a minimal impact on our own economy...