Skull
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The Red menace is still not entirely on the ash heap of history, so here are some reminders of past and present victims of that totalitarian horror.
http://victimsofcommunism.org
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not victims of Communism, they are that of Capitalism, which stood in the way of every Communist state and sabotaged their progress.
Yes,the gulag is one big exercise. You need exercise to keep healthy. In fact, it even buys you a mental freedom, as also stated by Arbeit macht frei. I have a gulag story too. The grandfather of a Russian pAl told me. He worked in a gulag where they were installing some industrial railway line in the middle of the desert. Every day after the work, they jumped on the locomotives and sat on top of them with vodka bottles holding them high, whilst the locomotive drivers driving at full speed. The nachalniks were shooting at the bottles as they were held out by the prisoners atop the speeding locomotives, and if they hit one bottle, that prisoner had the next day off work.
as for gulags, take for example Solzhenitsyn, whose personal experience was nothing like described in his books; he not only survived a gulag but also received successful treatement for his cancer while in there; so much for gulag horrors... western propaganda is not to be trusted because it distorts the truth & facts in order to portray Russia in a bad light, no matter what political system, the USSR or Russian Empire's.
During the Cold War, it is true, our awareness of Soviet atrocities went up – but in the 1960s, they receded again. Even in the 1980s, there were still American academics who went on describing the advantages of East German health care or Polish peace initiatives. In the academic world, some Western historians downplayed the history of the camps, if not because they were actually pro-Soviet, then because they were opposed to America’s role in the Cold War. Right up to the very end, our views of the Soviet Union, and its repressive system, always had more to do with American politics and American ideological struggles than they did with the Soviet Union itself.