Horrors unearthed in "The Unknown Gulag" and "Cannibal Island"

Seattle Times ^ | 5/4/07 | By Douglas Smith

[vader69]

The history of the Soviet gulag has been told before, most powerfully in Alexander Solzhenitsyn's epic, "The Gulag Archipelago," published in the 1970s. Yet so immense is this history, so vast was the whirlwind of terror that swept over the Soviet Union in the 1930s, that much is only now coming to light. The network of prison camps documented by Solzhenitsyn, we are learning, formed only part of the gulag system. There was a second or "hidden" gulag as well that destroyed the lives of millions of Soviet citizens.

[isom35]

sounds like a grindhouse double feature from the 70s.

[edcoil]

communism = evil, everywhere it has been tried.

I’d like to take a moment to thank my local congressman trying to change a 1955 law here in California to allow this evil to come back.

Thanks Chuck.

[Lurker]

But the New York Times told me that Stalin was a great guy! They even won a Pulitzer for an article they wrote on how great the Workers Paradise was and everything....

L

[End Times Sentinel]

Werth produces the testimony of a survivor who tells of a young woman who was chased down, tied to a tree, and the flesh cut from her live body and devoured raw.

 

So close to going into the shopping cart until I read that line. 

 

Gross.

 

Grosser still is that there's so many Americans who make excuses for the leftist monsters who drove people to this behavior.

Owl_Eagle

If what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.

Werth produces the testimony of a survivor who tells of a young woman who was chased down, tied to a tree, and the flesh cut from her live body and devoured raw.

[GodGunsGuts]

They still need to have a Nurenburg-style trial for all the Soviet-era murderers still alive. Such a trial would have the longest list of defendants in history—GGG

[FreePaul]

Seems that I’ve heard this kind of story before. Usually excused as necessary to make the great communist society work smoothly. Well, maybe not smoothly. Just to the benefit of the first class communists.

[popdonnelly]

The notion that all-powerful government leads to utopia actually results in these kinds of human and moral disasters. Too much power in the hands of a few is the enemy of humanity.

[CondorFlight]

Stalin was still being praised in the 1930s as Uncle Joe and the USSR was the workers’ paradise, according to all the leftist intellectuals in the west.

It had to be true—it was what the New York Times said, wasn’t it?

[Calpernia]

Related:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1209454/posts?page=166#166
U.S.-RUSSIA JOINT COMMISSION ON POW/MIAs - The Gulag Study

[Gritty]

Even the horror stories of over 100 million dead because of Communist tyranny won’t dissaude those in this country who still think this is the wave of the future.

[gopsue]

“Gulag” by Anne Applebaum should be required reading in every high school in this country. It’s a comprehensive and astonishing look at Stalinist Russia & the Soviet Union.

[2banana]

But this is the system liberals think will bring utopia...

[newcthem]

A great example of the Dem’s social engineering taken to the nth degree.

[holfen123]

Too bad Walter Duranty isn’t still around to write about this.

[litehaus]

Duranty fan are ya? LOL.....

[sionnsar]

gargantuan projects of social engineering were decreed from on high with no thought to their feasibility or the details for their implementation.

Ugh.

[PapaBear3625]

Whether in the USSR, China, the Killing Fields of Cambodia, the story is the same: the personality types that think they are qualified to plan people's lives, and plan society as a whole, become extremely violent when their plans don't turn out well

Leftism is a dangerous mental illness.

[GingisK]

...those in this country who still think this is the wave of the future...

That is simply because they image that the gulag is just right for those like you and me.