Sentences with phrase «solovki gulag»

In 1924 the Soviets transformed the monastery complex into the first gulag.

10's of millions killed in gulags.

: «After the two World Wars, the lagers and the gulags, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, our era has ever increasingly become a Holy Saturday.

A slogan inscribed on a sign in the Solovki gulag was a simple but exact expression of the essence of utopia: «With an iron hand we will drive humanity to happiness!»

Sure lets talk about «binder's of women» anything but the real issues like the human rights violations when we drop bombs on cities with unchecked drone power, spying on our own citizens, still waging war on our own population calling it a war on drugs and turning us into a gulag state.

Solzhenitsyn discovered in the gulag what my friend also knows — that there is a strength that comes from renunciation of life, a strength that triumphs even over the powers that threaten death.

Urging people to pray for the situation, Lord Alton said: «People should be praying for North Korea - I certainly do - for those Christians especially who have been incarcerated in the gulags but pray also for a change of hearts and minds.»

We need more enlightened leadership like we had in the 20th C. That's when good visionaries weren't afraid to put those religious kooks in gulags, or graves, where they belong!

Only, these gulags are imagined to be worse than any labor camp Stalin ever dreamed up, and this punishment for thought crimes way beyond anything found in the book 1984.

It's more like God's gulag camp where he sends his political prisoners, those guilty of thought crimes, never to be seen again.

Then pointing out that your presidential candidate wants to send atheists and communists to a gulag in Cuba is very helpful in my decision making process.

Look at the deadly gulags and purges of the USSR, the deadly Cultural Revolution and Great Leap Forward of Mao, and the deadly Year Zero of Pol Pot, all which Marx's writings inspired... and all occurring within the past century (and people still prefer to make a stink about the Crusades that happened 1000 years ago).

Amnesty International says that currently, hundreds of thousands of North Korean citizens are imprisoned in gulags and are frequently subjected to torture, executions and starvation...

Even worse was to follow: the Great Depression, World War II, the Holocaust, the Russian gulags, the construction of nuclear bombs and other weapons of mass destruction, ethnic cleansing, to say nothing of the breakdown of many marriages and increase in petty crime — and all within the nations of Christendom.

Not too long ago, nations were killing each other with concentration camps and gulags, firebombing cities, nuking cities and carpet bombing indescriminately.

He rounded up thousands of priests, monks, nuns, etc. and sent them to gulags.

(52) In fact, Orthodox, Protestant, and Catholic Christians had precisely this experience in the concentration camps and gulags of our century: Rarely has this experience been acknowledged in this way in an official document.

You will find that from St. Peter to the Christians under Stalin, millions of followers of Jesus have WILLINGLY gone to jails, gulags, torture rather than renounce their faith.

Gulags and Concentration camps courtesy of German and Soviet atheistic governments were responsible for tens of millions of deaths.

If this were true we could equally argue that Mr Dawkins is an apologist for the men who brought us the Nazi death camps, Cambodia's Year Zero and the Soviet gulags.

Under communism the church was severely persecuted and many ended up in the gulag, in psychiatric hospitals and dead for being dissidents, i.e. true martyrs, who paid with their very lives.

This is the messianic maximalism that has blighted our century, the Gnostic idealism that subverts its own ends and leads instead to the gas chambers and the gulag.

They are hypocrites... Walmart sells tons of goods produced at least in part by slave laborers in China's gulag... It's all about the buck for the Walton's, «good Christians» though they be.

But consider the price at which that comfort is purchased: it requires us to believe in and love a God whose good ends will be realized not only in spite of» but entirely by way of» every cruelty, every fortuitous misery, every catastrophe, every betrayal, every sin the world has ever known; it requires us to believe in the eternal spiritual necessity of a child dying an agonizing death from diphtheria, of a young mother ravaged by cancer, of tens of thousands of Asians swallowed in an instant by the sea, of millions murdered in death camps and gulags and forced famines.

They highlight one awful reality of Putin's Russia — if you go against the State you'll join the cohort of detractors, and those perceived as threats, in the gulags.

Imagine an American citizen who, bankrolled by millions of dollars from the Soviet Union, spent his entire life as an apologist for Communist oppression, including Stalin's murder of many millions by planned famine and the terror of the gulag archipelago.

The Soviet Union that Gus Hall served so loyally may have murdered fifteen million kulaks and starved ten million Ukrainians to death and killed another ten million in the gulag, but the U.S. failed to give Mr. Hall an extradition hearing.

He also could not stand any rivals or dissent, and sent his dissidents to the Gulags too.»

As they suffered together in the gulags and concentration camps, Protestants, Catholics, and Orthodox found themselves united in their common Christianity, sharing the passion and the promises of the crucified and risen Lord.

There are levels to the Cubs being lovable losers, their attempts to escape from the gulag of low expectations, and there's something about them going oh - for - Wrigley that would have been especially cruel, even by Cubs standards.

There are those old enough to remember (yes, I'm talking to you Mr. Grant Richardson of Long Ditton) the days when Max Mosley would have taken a dim view to such remarks, and a short spell in the gulags would follow.

We reject this right to define personhood in the case of Nazi anti-Semitism, Confederate race - based slavery, and Soviet Gulags.

What constitutes «worthwhile» is up to the ruling party, as such could be viewed as good could be viewed as gulag worthy.

- the gulags, the oppression of eastern europe: all the things that have been conveniently forgotten by the Dave and Deirdre Sparts who were still singing about Lenin's red flag last week at the Labour party conference...

Irina Ratushinskaya's Grey is the Colour of Hope — humanity and poetry in the gulag.

In Moscow 1956: The Silenced Spring (Harvard) Kathleen E Smith looks at what this meant for writers, students, scientists and former gulag prisoners.

Steve Turner, assistant general secretary of Unite, said workers had likened the conditions to a «gulag», or «labour camp» and described the conditions as «19th century working practices».

«Arroyo might not be trucked off to the gulag, but Mark - Viverito will see she spends a long winter in Siberia,» laughed my source.

State Sen. John Bonacic's retirement announcement reminded me of one of our first encounters, back around 1997, when he was part of that political gulag known as the Republican Assembly minority.

This time around, in place of the inexhaustible human resources of the gulag, there are delays, cancellations and rather nervous foreign investors.

Like the gulag, Baikonur constituted a state within a state.

At that congress, the «excesses of the Stalin era» were officially denounced and information about the gulag reluctantly released.

Given that the man is a bloody - handed tyrant who has turned the most prosperous nation in the Caribbean into a gulag, he deserves far worse than some trash talk from space.

Finding a woman in Minnitoba would facilitate my escape from this gulag.

The Gulags and Siberian snow plains.

At least 10 agents were executed, and dozens were condemned to harsh prison sentences in the Soviet gulag.

The Chinese government, we learn, has made Internet addiction a national health priority, and the solution is an open - ended stint at Daxing, a «rehabilitation facility» that looks and feels remarkably like a gulag.

The film depicts a group of escapees from a Siberian gulag camp circa World War Two who endure a long trek to freedom in India.

And whether fiction or not, this story does provide a valid look at the Soviet Gulags and a reminder of this often overlooked tragic chapter of history.

The details of Helen's pre-Australia life are the stuff of epics: orphaned at 6; abandoned at age 9 by an indifferent uncle; forced to live for years on the streets of her small Polish town (now part of the Ukraine); shipped at 16 to a Russian gulag to work as a slave laborer after Stalin and Hitler divvy up Poland; twice compelled to trek endless miles through Russian territory, ending up first in Uzbekistan and then in Persia; displaced to a refugee camp in Rhodesia, where she becomes pregnant — by an Italian soldier — with Sophia; finally arriving in Australia, where she's forced to temporarily place her daughrer in an orphanage.