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The haunting faces of prisoners worked to death in Stalin's slave camps
Daily Mail ^
| 12/24/17
| Kelly Mclaughlin
Posted on 12/27/2017 7:50:51 AM PST by x1stcav
Trudging through mud in sub-zero temperatures, digging the earth with their bare hands and heaving huge rocks with the most primitive of tools, these horrifying photos have revealed life inside Joseph Stalin's gulag prisons, where people were worked to death in Soviet labour camps through the mid-1900s.
This year marks 100 years since the 1917 Russian Revolution, which led to Vladimir Lenin taking control of the Soviet Union. When Lenin died in 1924, Stalin rose to power and became the state's authoritarian leader.
Between 1929 and the year of Stalin's death in 1953, 18million men and women were transported to Soviet slave labour camps in Siberia and other outposts of the Red empire - many of them never to return.
Prisoners worked in the most extreme climates, facing temperatures of -20C (-4F), as they cut down trees with handsaws and dug at frozen ground with primitive pickaxes.
Others mined coal or copper by hand, often suffering painful or fatal lung diseases from inhaling ore dust while on the job.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: gulag; josephstalin; russia; socialism; stalin; ussr
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To: x1stcav
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.
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posted on
12/27/2017 8:13:42 AM PST
by
Wyrd bið ful aræd
(Flag burners can go screw -- I'm mighty PROUD of that ragged old flag)
To: x1stcav
They only killed straight white males--nothing to see here...
The MSM.
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posted on
12/27/2017 8:14:43 AM PST
by
cgbg
(Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
To: x1stcav
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.
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posted on
12/27/2017 8:18:28 AM PST
by
laweeks
To: P.O.E.
St. Petersburg is sitting on the bones of tens of thousands of serfs who died building it.
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posted on
12/27/2017 8:18:43 AM PST
by
bravo whiskey
(Never bring a liberal gun law to a gun fight.)
To: WayneS
> There arent 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?
Liberals response:
But what about the millions that capitalism has killed?
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posted on
12/27/2017 8:20:39 AM PST
by
dsrtsage
(For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
To: GOPJ
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.
;-)
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posted on
12/27/2017 8:25:12 AM PST
by
WayneS
(An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
To: x1stcav
1st Gulag Prisoner: how long was your sentence
2nd 20 years
1st For what?
2nd Nothing
1st that cant be true, for nothing they give you 10 years
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posted on
12/27/2017 8:26:09 AM PST
by
RedStateRocker
(Nuke Mecca, deport all illegals, abolish the DEA, IRS and ATF.)
To: crz
“And there was a few who were American boys whos 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.
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posted on
12/27/2017 8:26:59 AM PST
by
Justa
To: Common Sense 101
Stalin killed more Russians than Hitler.
Of course, he was a Georgian.
To: Leaning Right
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.
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posted on
12/27/2017 8:28:42 AM PST
by
WayneS
(An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
To: Justa
Abandoning POWs, an old idea.
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posted on
12/27/2017 8:29:13 AM PST
by
wally_bert
(I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
To: Leaning Right
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 :-)
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posted on
12/27/2017 8:29:17 AM PST
by
RedStateRocker
(Nuke Mecca, deport all illegals, abolish the DEA, IRS and ATF.)
To: x1stcav
Ahhhhhhhh...Socialism!!
Ain't it grand!!
To: bravo whiskey
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posted on
12/27/2017 8:33:17 AM PST
by
WayneS
(An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
To: McGavin999
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.
To: cgbg
If Barry’s fantasy was allowed to play out how many Freepers would suffer the same fate as these tormented souls?
To: x1stcav
"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
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posted on
12/27/2017 8:35:12 AM PST
by
Wolfie
To: HLPhat
>And funding.
>Who did that?
Wallstreet.
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posted on
12/27/2017 8:39:48 AM PST
by
JohnyBoy
(The GOP Senate is intentionally trying to lose the majority.)
To: WayneS
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