Sentences with phrase «of gulag»

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.

This time around, in place of the inexhaustible human resources of the gulag, there are delays, cancellations and rather nervous foreign investors.

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.

His main rival is Simon Russell Beale's Laventri Beria, Stalin's longest - lived secret police chief: the architect of the gulags, and a man who prides himself on personally torturing and murdering prisoners under his watch.

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.

Not exact matches

10's of millions killed in gulags.

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!»

Sure lets talk about «binder's of women» anything but the real issues like the human rights violations when we drop bombs on cities with unchecked drone power, spying on our own citizens, still waging war on our own population calling it a war on drugs and turning us into a gulag state.

Solzhenitsyn discovered in the gulag what my friend also knows — that there is a strength that comes from renunciation of life, a strength that triumphs even over the powers that threaten death.

Urging people to pray for the situation, Lord Alton said: «People should be praying for North Korea - I certainly do - for those Christians especially who have been incarcerated in the gulags but pray also for a change of hearts and minds.»

It's more like God's gulag camp where he sends his political prisoners, those guilty of thought crimes, never to be seen again.

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).

Amnesty International says that currently, hundreds of thousands of North Korean citizens are imprisoned in gulags and are frequently subjected to torture, executions and starvation...

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.

He rounded up thousands of priests, monks, nuns, etc. and sent them to gulags.

(52) In fact, Orthodox, Protestant, and Catholic Christians had precisely this experience in the concentration camps and gulags of our century: Rarely has this experience been acknowledged in this way in an official document.

You will find that from St. Peter to the Christians under Stalin, millions of followers of Jesus have WILLINGLY gone to jails, gulags, torture rather than renounce their faith.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

There are those old enough to remember (yes, I'm talking to you Mr. Grant Richardson of Long Ditton) the days when Max Mosley would have taken a dim view to such remarks, and a short spell in the gulags would follow.

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

- 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...

Irina Ratushinskaya's Grey is the Colour of Hope — humanity and poetry in the gulag.

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.

At that congress, the «excesses of the Stalin era» were officially denounced and information about the gulag reluctantly released.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Michael is operating under the behest of Irina (Kate Winslet), a nasty Russian mafia head who is desperate to secure the release of her husband from a gulag.

I could've used a little more subtlety around the set piece at the end of the film (abandoned gulag, really?)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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»).

Peter Weir's latest film The Way Back tells the epic tale of prisoners who escape a Siberian gulag in 1940 and travel 4,000 miles to their freedom.

(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.

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

Everyone knows that if they lose this power struggle, they may be shot on the spot, or sent to a gulag until the next change of government.

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.

I LOST 20 years of good writing because of the gatekeeping gulag.