Sentences with word «gulag»
The word "gulag" refers to a system of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union during the mid-20th century. It represents a place where people were imprisoned and subjected to harsh conditions and hard labor as a form of punishment or political repression. Full definition
They burned down churches, foribid religion, killed priests and civic leaders and put millions in gulags.
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Hitting movie theaters this weekend: No Strings Attached — Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher, Kevin Kline The Way Back — Ed Harris, Jim Sturgess, Colin Farrell (limited) Movie of the Week The Way Back The Stars: Ed Harris, Jim Sturgess, Colin Farrell The Plot: A group of gulag escapees journey 4,000 miles to their freedom.
His book, along with a range of other accounts, chronicle the escape of a small band of multi-national prisoners from a Siberian gulag in 1940, and their epic journey over thousands of miles across five hostile countries.
Both sides of my family came to the United States after the war as refugees from the Soviet gulags in Siberia.
We prefer not be crammed elbow to elbow in document review gulags for less money than an ex-con gets paid to stamp holes in sheet metal.
He had prisons known as gulags built throughout the taiga of the Russian Empire, many of them in the frozen hell that is Siberia.
As rioting gulag prisoners prepare to execute Sinyavksy, the camp commander, he pleads that he should be...
(In Danish, English and Korean with subtitles) The Way Back (PG - 13 for violence, a nude image, depictions of physical hardships, and brief profanity) Fact - based bio-pic, based on Slavomir Rawicz's memoir chronicling his undertaking a grueling 4,500 mile trek from Siberia to India following an escape with a half - dozen fellow prisoners from a Russian gulag in the Forties.
Credenza, the world did not know about the millions who died in Stalin's gulags until long after the fact — the result of Communist censorship.
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.
What he finds, among the forgotten mines and decrepit barracks of former gulags, is a world relegated to oblivion, where it is easier to ignore both the victims and the executioners than to come to terms with a terrible past.
Landscape trumps character in The Way Back, just as the Siberian and Mongolian wilderness overwhelms the seven gulag escapees at the heart of Peter Weir's 1940 - set film.
In more recent times, they have been used to keep prisoners from leaving gulags and have proven to be excellent military guard dogs.
Oh, and Escape From Camp 14, a memoir of the North Korean gulag and a healthy reminder that the premise of my book (slavery!
Each mission is recounted from a post-war gulag as Isaokovich attempts to explain how he became disillusioned with the USSR.
First, because Sprog 1 was sick in bed, then because Sprog 2 was sick in bed, then today because the chicken gulag collapsed and I had to chase chooks all over the yard.
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.
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.
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.
In 1924 the Soviets transformed the monastery complex into the first gulag.
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!»
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).
Interestingly, two of the more notorious Christian big box stores — Walmart and Hobby Lobby — rely on Chinese gulags to produce their profit making products.
Not since Alexander Solzhenitsyn's gulag writings has a document of such moving power emerged from the tradition of prison literature.
As for the words of Marx, they illuminated hidden social mechanisms, and they were also the «germ of all the subsequent appalling gulags.»
What constitutes «worthwhile» is up to the ruling party, as such could be viewed as good could be viewed as gulag worthy.
In those respects, Faso, tested in the crucible of the Assembly minority gulag, is no pushover.
It hits every comedic mark that it needs to, particularly in the excellently cast gulag scenes, and it never fails to make fun of itself (Statler and Waldorf are excellent critics and never overused), but the end credits sequence is dour and reflects nothing that came before it.
I could've used a little more subtlety around the set piece at the end of the film (abandoned gulag, really?)
An intense and beautiful piece of cinema, The Way Back is loosely based on the true story of soldiers who escaped from a Siberian gulag during World War II.
After fleeing Vince McMahon's wrestling gulag in the mid-2000s, Johnson embarked on a short but rather unsuccessful campaign of forgettable action films («Walking Tall,» «Doom»).
After Captain America sprung them from the Raft — the supermax, superhero ocean gulag in Civil War — Clint Barton and Scott Lang went home to be with their families.
After a series of collapsed projects, he's finally come through with «The Way Back,» about a long trek by gulag prisoners to freedom.
The Soviet war hero and rising star within Stalin's State Security force has ordered the execution of thousands of his countrymen, or worse, dispatched them to the infamous gulags, all in service to the greater good of communism.
Welcome to Zelda Party Resort, the mini-game gulag of champions.
Physical and electrical phenomena have been at the heart of Micol Assaël's artistic research since 2001, when she made the first version of Vorkuta, working on her memories of a journey to the Vorkuta gulag in Siberia.
[i] One gulag survivor, an escapee of Yodok, wrote of children in the concentration camp,
I bought lots of shadecloth at the hardware store — while sourcing Sprog 2's mini-broom — and nailed it very tightly and very carefully across all access points under the deck (bar the one that adjoins the chook gulag).
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.
It's more like God's gulag camp where he sends his political prisoners, those guilty of thought crimes, never to be seen again.
A chorus of women recount their stories and those of their grandmothers, former gulag prisoners who settled their Siberian mining town.
In Moscow 1956: The Silenced Spring (Harvard) Kathleen E Smith looks at what this meant for writers, students, scientists and former gulag prisoners.