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Gierek has shown great flexibility in ideology and politics. Poland, in fact, since the Stalinist days when it was a dispirited Soviet satellite, has turned into a rather un typical socialist state. Private farm ownership is tolerated, ordinary citizens are comparatively free to travel abroad, and churches are packed on Sundays - all made accept able to the Soviet Union by internal stability and a close adherence to Moscow in foreign policy...
...superb literary skill and his eye for compelling human detail, Gulag II is based on a wealth of solid documentation. This includes official Soviet records and the testimony of hundreds of victims, including that of Solzhenitsyn himself, a prisoner for eight years in the gigantic "archipelago" of Stalinist labor camps run by "Gulag," the Central Corrective Labor Camp Administration. Between 1918 and 1959, Solzhenitsyn believes, 66 million men, women and children were shuttled to these islands of slavery under the pious official slogan "Correction through labor." In fact, Solzhenitsyn charges, it amounted to "extermination through labor...
...words here, a few words there. I have to admit that [one] reason I refused Kapitsa permission was possibly that Stalin was still belching inside me. Keep in mind, I'd worked under Stalin for years and years, and you don't free yourself from [Stalinist] habits so easily. It takes time to become conscious of your shortcomings and free yourself...
...Ignat, 17 months. Behind them came his wife Natalya, stepson Dimitri, 12, mother-in-law and youngest son Stepan, six months. Then the Solzhenitsyns drove to their home in exile, a seven-room villa. Deported from Russia in February for publishing in the West his account of Stalinist terror, The Gulag Archipelago, the novelist was concerned that his archives, which he needs to continue his series of novels about modern Russian history, had not been tampered with. But the documents arrived safely, filling most of 14 suitcases and trunks, which weighed some 800 Ibs. Solzhenitsyn's literary success...
Speaking at a program of films and discussion at Cabot Hall, Karel Kovanda, a Ph.D. candidate in political science at MIT, called the current Czech government "the harshest, the most stalinist in all of Eastern Europe." Kovanda was chairman of the Union of Czechoslovakian Students at the time of the Russian intervention in August...