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What has happened to them all? As many as 40% are dead, according to NATO estimates. Many are still working as slave laborers. A year after the war ended, Russian sources indicated that 2,800,000 Germans, Italians, Japanese, Hungarians and French were working on a northern link of the Trans-Siberian railway. Other prisoners are held over the heads of satellite countries as hostages...
...China has made substantial material progress, but only by using armies of slave laborers. One huge dam visited by Mme. Pandit was being built by 2,000,000 peasant conscripts...
...deputy who will only say that he is acting under your orders and put on a pained expression Pained expressions take all the fun out of things, especially when not terribly sincere. And, after all, why should your deputies have all the fun, rocking and diving, while you slave away at your desk over letters like this? It may be possible for me to invite some friends and we can have a party (refreshments rocking diving...
There have been many books about disillusioned Communists, some of them excellent, most of them stereotyped. Hardly a week passes without its book about Soviet slave camps. But El Campesino's story, direct, terse and without presumptions to literary grace, has the persuasiveness of crushing truth. Though it has none of the art of Darkness at Noon, it belongs beside Koestler's book on the shelf set aside for the literature of human shame...
...time he was shut up in Lubianka prison and put through various physical and psychological "persuasions" to sign a phony confession of spying for the British and Americans. He refused, and then began four years of prison camps in Siberia and Turkestan. His brief descriptions of Lubianka, the slave camps and the tortures that were devised to break him are set down in the passionless reporting of a recorder who has known terror so well that it has become conventional...