Quotes About Gulags

the Soviet experiment as "an absurd horror film stretching over 70 years." Government-organized famine, hideous show trials, brutal gulags, mass murder, life in the Soviet Union made the plagues that fell upon Egypt seem a week in the Catskills.

also may explain why the prison population in America consisting of more than six million people, exceeds the number of prisoners held in the gulags of the former Soviet Union at any point in its history.

Katherine read constantly. She loved biographies of male dictators and enjoyed a long Stalin phase when she became obsessed, not by the Gulags or by the Yalta Conference, but by his wife's suicide, his taste for sweet Georgian wines, the way he made his ministers bark 'The Blue Danube' after dinner, like dogs. She quoted his daughter Svetlana, who said, 'He was a Sagittarius, you know, on the cusp with Capricorn.

But I'm thinking of the great death populations of the Gulags and the German labor camps. Why does the century—I don't know how else to put it—underwrite so much destruction? There is a lameness that comes over all of us when we consider these facts.

Trump can embrace dictators and gulags, but we the people stand for human rights, for dignity, for keeping families together.

Perhaps 20 million had been killed; 28 million deported, of whom 18 million had slaved in the Gulags. Yet, after so much slaughter, they were still believers. At

The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives.