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POPSAlexander Solzhenitsyn is Dead He was the greatest witness against the horrors of Stalinism and the system of gulags and slave labor camps in the USSR. Not long after moving to the US, he critiqued the materialism of the west. In the end, he seemed to be something of Tolstoyan theocrat. His book "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" had a big impact on me in my youth. His interview with William F. Buckley on the old Firing Line series, if you can find it, is not to be missed.
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POPSRussian Gulag Writer Alexander Solzhenitsen Dies At 89
"His intransigence, his ideals and his long, eventful life make of Solzhenitsyn a storybook figure, heir to Dostoyevsky. He belongs to the pantheon of world history. I pay homage to his memory." Born to a single mother in 1918 at Kislovodsk in the Caucasus amid the bloody aftermath of the Russian Revolution, Solzhenitsyn was initially a loyal Communist. But he went on to undermine the regime's moral foundations, his writings energizing dissent at home and in the West. First though he had to enter the living hell of the Gulag, a vast prison system that stretched from the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea to the steppes of Kazakhstan. Solzhenitsyn was sentenced to eight years in the camps in 1945 and was to go on to survive cancer and a KGB assassination attempt. He was released in February 1953, a few weeks before Stalin's death. He spent three more years in internal exile in Kazakhstan, contracted and overcame cancer. "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" 1962
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POPS One Million... And Growing... Cat Stevens aka Yusuf Islam and many more like him. Soon it will be me, my friends and family and just about everybody that has contact to a very critical opposition to this type of " Warfare ". We are already considered " Un Patriotic " and that listing will be next. Coming to America, the land of the Free. Only the GULAGS in the old Soviet Union had more.
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POPSMushroom Clouds A-Popping Is the Republican romance with fear ending? It's served them well for seven years now. Could we be seeing a turn to a more rational and sane policy? They're going to attempt to use it during the coming election. Are we going to sit by and let them?
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POPSJustice in the US? Just Us At this very moment, the MOST conservative estimates calculates that approximately 200,000 innocent human beings are rotting away in America's gulags and torture chambers. What a statement in contrast to the normal fare of bloviation about "land of the free" and other assorted bullshit. In fact, there are more innocent people behind bars in the US than in any other country on earth. Folks should keep this in mind the next time they're talking a load of bullshit about "it may not be perfect, but it is the best." Best compared only to the worst the world has to offer.
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POPSThe Ethics of Israel: Child Prisoners Tortured I mean folks, how low can a society go? In the entire world, there is nothing lower than Israel and its joined-at-the-hip guard dog, the USA. You simply cannot go much lower than this for an entity that calls itself a nation. Nor do Israel or its Zionist supporters hang their heads in shame because they simply have no shame whatsoever. In fact, they are proud of their hideous record.
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