Sentences with phrase «soviet gulags»

Both sides of my family came to the United States after the war as refugees from the Soviet gulags in Siberia.

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.

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

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.

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

When Hitler invaded Austria in 1938, the young prize - winning Jewish pianist Sofia Cosma had to return to her home in Latvia, where she was arrested sent to a Soviet gulag where she spent seven years.

The idea you're no longer going to die in a nuclear holocaust, or some Soviet gulag (hey, the Cold War was an anxious time!)

Not exact matches

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

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

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.

A former Soviet officer named Lev Isakovich frames the singleplayer campaign as a series of recollections conducted under interrogation by his former commanding officer in one of Stalin's post-war gulags.

This is very similar to the way «rogue» scientists were treated in the soviet union, except for the locking up Dr. Salby in a gulag.

The theme is no different - Lysenko viewed Mendelian genetic theory as a fascist theory, and anyone who disagreed was sent to the gulag - hence putting Soviet biological science back decades.

Not to be outdone, Peter Hitchens thundered in the Mail on Sunday that the «pseudo-scientific dogma» of climate science is turning the UK into the Soviet Union, complete with accompanying (intellectual) gulags, and that because of «warmists armed with windmills» (to quote from the headline) «we came within inches of major power blackouts».