The haunting faces of prisoners worked to death in Stalin's slave camps

Daily Mail ^ | 12/24/17 | Kelly Mclaughlin

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I've been reading a book entitled After Stalingrad about the fate of German POWs. The Soviet regime was every bit as abominable as Hitler's. The hammer and sickle should be reviled as fully as the swastika, and yet lefties wave it in the street, loud and proud.

[cgbg]

They only killed straight white males--nothing to see here...

The MSM.

[laweeks]

If anybody is interested, one of the best books on the horrors of the Gulags is called “Alexander Dolgun’s Story: An American in the Gulag”, an incredible true story of this American citizens trapped in Stalin’s Gulag.

[bravo whiskey]

St. Petersburg is sitting on the bones of tens of thousands of serfs who died building it.

[Leaning Right]

> There aren’t any statues of Stalin near where I live. <

A bit of a side point. You can order shirts on Amazon that have a picture of Stalin on them. There are many choices. But you can't get one with a confederate flag. How's that for being politically correct?

[dsrtsage]

Liberals response:

But what about the millions that capitalism has killed?

[WayneS]

Sort of like “Peace Village” in North Korea.

Nevertheless, one would think the crack investigative reporters of the NYT, with their blood-hound-like instincts for the truth, would have easily seen through the charade.

;-)

[RedStateRocker]

1st Gulag Prisoner: “how long was your sentence”
2nd “20 years”
1st “For what?”
2nd “Nothing”
1st “that can’t be true, for nothing they give you 10 years”

[Justa]

“And there was a few who were American boys who’s POW camp they over ran during WW2”

A few? More like at least 24,000. Stalin kept them for bargaining chips. Some were traded back during spy exchanges but very few.

[woodbutcher1963]

Stalin killed more Russians than Hitler.

Of course, he was a Georgian.

[WayneS]

I’d be happy to add a bullet-hole in Stalin’s forehead for anyone who owns one of these. And, the owner would be free to wear the shirt for the procedure if he/she wished.

[wally_bert]

Abandoning POWs, an old idea.

[RedStateRocker]

I made a meme with a picture of Stalin with my favorite quote of his:

“It’s not who votes that counts. It’s who counts the votes”.

Got flamed all to hell for posting it :-)

[JesusIsLord]

Ahhhhhhhh...Socialism!!

Ain't it grand!!

[WayneS]

Okay.

[woodbutcher1963]

When I went to high school we had to read Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich”
and the “Gulag Archipelago” so we could know how lucky we had it.

[hardspunned]

If Barry’s fantasy was allowed to play out how many Freepers would suffer the same fate as these tormented souls?

[Wolfie]

"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956

[JohnyBoy]

>And funding.
>Who did that?

Wallstreet.

[minnesota_bound]

Seattle has a Lenin statue since 1995
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/08/19/in-seattle-people-are-protesting-monuments-to-the-confederacy-and-communism/?utm_term=.4166e04d8dd4

No Stalin statue... yet.