[Justa]

"He bragged that he was able to get his poor little dissident self assigned to an "island of paradise", a "Club Red" for scientists and academics. In the camps where he was kept, EVERYONE had it easy."

Oh yeah, the old Gulag scam.

/sarcasm.

[Alouette]

Oh yeah, the old Gulag scam.

OK, fine, don't take my word for it. Go to the library and check out copies of THE FIRST CIRCLE and THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO and read the parts in which he describes the resort-camp he got himself into by claiming his profession was "nuclear physicist."

I'll wait here. ...tapping foot...