MOSCOW — Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning Russian author whose books chronicled the horrors of dictator Josef Stalin’s slave labor camps, has died of heart failure, his son said Monday.
His theme was the suffering and injustice of life in Stalin's gulag -- a Soviet abbreviation for the slave labor camp system, which Solzhenitsyn made part of the lexicon. He continued writing while ...
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Karoly Miklosi was heading to his job at a print shop in February 1945 when the Soviets nabbed him for slave labor. They took the 18-year-old first to Romania, then to what is ...
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Ukrainian poet Vasyl Stus died in a Soviet labor camp — new exhibition in Kyiv honors his life
While the Soviet authorities promoted their vision of ideological "universalism" — a homogenized identity that suppressed national cultures — dissenting voices were silenced through arrests, ...
Austrian prisoners of war coming home from Soviet captivity last October reported that two Americans, named Homer Cox and Leland Towers, were among the inmates in a camp northeast of Moscow.The State ...
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