Sentences with phrase «as gulags»
What constitutes «worthwhile» is up to the ruling party, as such could be viewed as good could be viewed as gulag worthy.
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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.
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.
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».
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.
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.
As it is, the stilted claims at auteurism (he's known as the master of eye violence, mainly for a few juicy bits from The Beyond and Zombie) do more, perhaps, to relegate his work to a sort of camp gulag: the Siberia of legitimate cinema, where adolescent tools congregate for midnight showings armed with irony and a crippling baggage of disdain and contempAs it is, the stilted claims at auteurism (he's known as the master of eye violence, mainly for a few juicy bits from The Beyond and Zombie) do more, perhaps, to relegate his work to a sort of camp gulag: the Siberia of legitimate cinema, where adolescent tools congregate for midnight showings armed with irony and a crippling baggage of disdain and contempas the master of eye violence, mainly for a few juicy bits from The Beyond and Zombie) do more, perhaps, to relegate his work to a sort of camp gulag: the Siberia of legitimate cinema, where adolescent tools congregate for midnight showings armed with irony and a crippling baggage of disdain and contempt.
His «number two» guy, the auspiciously named Dominic Badguy (Gervais, The Invention of Lying), gets in the Muppets» good graces as their new manager for his suggestion of an upcoming European tour, then identities (and moles) are swapped, such that Kermit is sent to a Siberian gulag while Constantine now runs the Muppet Show.
Deadpool accompanies Colossus (voiced by Stefan Kapicic) and Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand) to take care of an incident in which young mutant Firefist (Julian Dennison, «Hunt for the Wilderpeople») lets his powers get out of control as he tries to escape an evil mutant «rehab» — basically the equivalent of one of those despicable «pray away the gay» gulags — run by the twitchy Headmaster (Eddie Marsan).
The plot has Constantine taking Kermit's place, sending the beloved frog to a gulag in Siberia — run by Nadya (Tina Fey)-- to serve out Constantine's sentence with prisoners the likes of Ray Liotta as Big Papa, Jemaine Clement as the Prison King, and Danny Trejo (The identity of his character is one of the movie's best throwaway jokes).
However, he has other plans for them as he helps Constantine, the world's most dangerous frog, to escape prison, kidnap Kermit and throw him in a Russian gulag.
The early sequences in the gulag are so hard - bitten and harrowing that the escape by Janusz and six other prisoners represents a liberation for us as well.
From the streets of Moscow in the throes of political upheaval, to the Siberian gulags, and to the center of the Hungarian uprising in Budapest, The Secret Speech is a breathtaking, epic novel that confirms Tom Rob Smith as one of the most exciting new authors writing today.
As rioting gulag prisoners prepare to execute Sinyavksy, the camp commander, he pleads that he should be spared because in addition to the terrible things he has done while running the gulag, he has also tried help when he could.
At the end of the story we meet a musician who is revered as a genius, but his work was actually stolen from another composer who died in the gulags.
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.
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.
Both sides of my family came to the United States after the war as refugees from the Soviet gulags in Siberia.