Sentences with phrase «gulag where»

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.

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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!
It's more like God's gulag camp where he sends his political prisoners, those guilty of thought crimes, never to be seen again.
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 contempt.
Even the slightest infraction landed you in the Korean gulag, where life was at best nasty, brutish and short.
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.
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.
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