Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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FORCED LABOR IN SOVIET RUSSIA (331 pp.) - David J. Dal I in and Boris I. Nicolaevsky-Yale University...
...host of subsidiary myths. Conspicuous among them is the 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...
...fact of slavery in the Soviet Union is not news; its literature is 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...
...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 in the White Sea, which has been in business since 1923, and Dalstroy...
Biggest Business. Slaves and slave camps are the private property of the MVD, and their productivity has made the Soviet secret police the world's biggest business. Slaves build electric power dams, factories, canals, railroads. They mine coal, iron, gold. By Dallin's estimate, they represent at least one out of every four Soviet workers. Since they can be regimented without appeal, worked to death without mercy and paid little or nothing, they are the Soviet Government's most profitable labor...