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A Death Rate of One Percent per Day

Look at what Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote about the death rate among Joseph Stalin’s slave laborers building the Belomor Canal versus the way that a local newspaper described their effort: They say that in the first winter, 1931-1932, 100,000 died off–a number equal to the number of those who made up the full working force on …

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Stalin’s disdain for kulaks extended to horses.

Look at what Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn parenthetically wrote about Joseph Stalin’s attitude toward horses when he described in The Gulag Archipelago how Stalin got a canal constructed: The country required the canal so urgently and in such haste that it could not even find any wheelbarrow wheels for the project! It would have been too difficult …

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Stalin used urgency to clear the way for the new society.

Communist-want-to-be’s today use urgency to promote their projects — everything from the Netherlands government rushing in its attempt to take over Dutch farms to American elites lying to the public about the need for masks in response to the Wuhan virus. Look at what Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote about how Joseph Stalin used urgency to clear …

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