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Posted on 10/04/2020 5:23:32 PM PDT by robowombat
True, but Covid may be the needle that pricks the overblown balloon of university staffing. Prez Kamala will find billions to prop up these feather bedded institutions but if there is a permanent big decline in brick and mortar students basic economics are going deflate or destroy many colleges and university’s.
Thank you for making that clearer. (FWIW!)
Margolin did not write the piece, Timothy Snyder wrote it about Margolin’s book. That is plain to see.
Not surprised, coming from a “Yalie,” that he dislikes PDJT.
Re Vietnam (where I was a journalist and then historian specialist on Communist terrorism/genocide for Congress and now Vietnam Veterans for Factual History.org), there are new books on VN using newly found documents.
Some of these have appeared in the approximately 8 volume “Yellow books”, year by year, written by members of the pro-American, proud to have served veterans of that war in VVFH. (See: www.VVFH.org for information on the Yearbooks and the websites which contain some information you will not find elsewhere, esp. in popular “VN” books from the Left and the ignorant).
Thanks. The one I saw was ‘Forgotten Army. the history of the ARVN.
Try to find the three volume hearings on “Soviet Labor Camps”, or “Labor Camps in the Soviet Union”, 1973 Testimony of Avram Shifrin”, Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Internal Security Subcommittee (SISS).
They should be online, esp. at Hein Online, ProQuest, etc.
He was a Soviet Jew whose father was killed by Stalin, then he was forced into a Soviet WW2 death unit known as a “penal battalion” of lightly armed (if at all), made up of Jewish political, religious or even somewhat secular individuals. Fatality rates for penal battalions ran up to 80%, as planned by Stalin and his henchmen.
By changing his name, Shifrin was able to get an education as a lawyer, work on secret KGB contracts inside Soviet “light industries” who turned out military equipment, and then was picked up by the infamous “Black Maria” vans, thrown into Lubianka Prison in Moscow, followed by ten years on imprisonment in Stalin’s slave labor camps along the Potma Railroad system all the way east to Lake Baikal.
Eventually he was brought back for a term of “internal exile” before being expelled from the Soviet Union.
I covered his story for the major Jewish newspaper in DC in the 1970’s and then helped avram edit his fourth congressional testimony on the hidden Soviet military budget which had followed the 3 volumes hearing on Soviet Labor Camps.
He has often been referred to as the Jewish Solzenitsyn. His own story in book form was published in Russian in Israel.
He provided the US government and public with the first updated map of Soviet slave labor camps since those created by the AFL-CIO in the mid-1950’s, as well as the story of what went on in those camps.
Zek’s story, that of Avram, Jack? Herman (Coming Out of/On the Ice), John Noble (the Soviet salt mines of post-WW2) - possibly titled “I Was A Prisoner in Soviet Russia”,
and Solzenitzyn’s “Gulag Archipelago” are great history books/personal stories to have for the truth about Leninism/Stalinism and their human cost.
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U.S.S.R. labor camps : hearings before the subcommittee to investigate the administration of the Internal Security Act and other internal security laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-third Congress.
Alexander Dolgun’s Story: An American in the Gulag
Alexander Dolgun compelled himself to reconstruct his long ordeal at the hands of the Soviet Secret Police. As a 22 year old young American, son of one of the American engineers who took jobs in Russia during the depression, He was stopped by Secret Police, and became prisoner of the MGB for 18 years of hell.
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WOW! OUTSTANDING post, education. Thanks robowombat. I love reading Solzhenitsyn. I started in middle school in a country far, far from this one called The United States of America.
In my last job at a BIG BOX store the “human resource” person/friend Carrie said to me, “you not an employee or even an “associate” you’re viewed as a ‘unit of labor’”.
Ominous Parallels - The end of Freedom in America. Leonard Peikoff
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ominous+parallels+peikoff&t=osx&ia=web
Audio online for free (I was listening to it a couple of days ago). I can’t find it right now.
Lifelong learning in a Free Republic. Thanks to all posters. Thanks JimRob.
Paging destabilizer, George $oro$.
and friends, like-minded.
Yep, George “that train has already left the station” $oro$...and [paraphrasing] the problem with the early EU was that they DID NOT have a central bank.
Read his utterances, read his mind...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRMf3wKBCPo
Face - Words - Deeds
Me?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhpu2N4rQZM&list=PLruRzJHlRMvIoZkuu8zBbe-ZWhs9Q9RH8&index=50
No. I’m old. I have no reason to.
One more think:
In Ominous Parallels (forgot the page) Tom Hayden [paraphrase quote] First we have to start the revolution to see where it goes.
Paging Plasticface PSYCHOPATH Nazi Pelosi. Did you lyft your face or those words, Nazi?
Sowwy...I couldn’t resist...
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=nancy+pelosi&t=osx&iax=images&ia=images
Isn’t she lovely...The Colliefornia Medusa?
Build a big ROACH MOTEL in the House, Chief. Lure it in with some liquor. The cheap stuff. You’re a builder. She’s a destroyer.
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