Sentences with phrase «by gulag»

After a series of collapsed projects, he's finally come through with «The Way Back,» about a long trek by gulag prisoners to freedom.

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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.

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.

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.

- 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...

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.

Harboring a secret infatuation, Nadya assigns Kermit to direct his fellow inmates (played most notably by Ray Liotta, Jemaine Clement, and Danny Trejo) in the gulag's annual revue, which contributes some to this film's high song count.

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).

There's some very dark comedy indeed, brought on by the fact that all of the good doctors have been either sent to the gulag or killed under suspicion of trying to poison Stalin.

(He was indeed forced - marched by the Russians to a Siberian gulag but he didn't escape, he was amnestied.)

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.

The story is that of a Pole wrongly accused of traitorous activities against the state and imprisoned by the Russians in one of their gulags in far eastern Siberia.

Stalin's plan for society was enforced by a huge secret police force and included the mass execution of political opponents, the forced starvation of millions of peasants, and a vast network of prison camps (gulags) erected to house slave labor.

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.

Over the course of the last decade — two gaming generations — and ten main series entries, this venerable franchise, once adored by fans for its re-imagining of some of the most tragic and triumphant events of the Second World War, became little more than a frat boy gadget-fest where K / D ratio is king, and to the gulag with everything else.

Rather than a relocation I meant by escape the idea of a dangerous journey, perhaps on foot or a perilous crossing of angry waters under cover of darkness, risking capture and death or life in the gulag, all for a better life.