Communists putting children above adults? Say it isn’t so!

For adults, fathers and grandfathers, these boisterous games of the kids in the crowded conditions of camp could cause more anguish and be more hurtful than their robbing and their rapacious greed. It proved to be one of the most sensitive forms of humiliation for an elderly person to be made equal with a young …

Communists putting the state above the individual? Say it isn’t so!

Here is what our laws were like for thirty years–to 1947: For robbery of the state, embezzlement of state funds, a packing case from a warehouse, for three potatoes from a collective farm–ten years! (After 1947, it was as much as twenty!) But robbery of a free person? Suppose they cleaned out an apartment, carting …

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 …

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 …