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"2 months ago, I had an epiphany. Compared to the Nazi Concentration Camps and the horrifying tales from Auschwitz, I know next to nothing about 20th century's other concomitant Forced-Labor Camp Industrial Complex: The Gulag. After a few days of r..."
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"Eye opening. Amazing how this part of history seems to be left alone, especially in the West. Applebaum acknowledges this when she visits the prisons on her own. An interesting read and one that includes the power that literature and poetry has wh..."
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"Among the best accounts of Stalin's system of concentration and labor camps that I know of. She describes not only the organization, operations of the camps as well as life within them, but she also explains the role of slave labor in the developm..."
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"In one of my college history classes, a student asked the professor who killed more people - Stalin or Hitler? The answer: we don't know and it doesn't matter - they were both the embodiment of evil. This book is very detailed history of the physi..."
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| Why is it that we are all familiar with atrocities committed by Nazis in World War II death camps but the extent of Soviet prison camp crimes are more of a cipher? No longer, thanks to this book. The author traces the history of the gulag from its ...more | |
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| The Woman's Hour covers the final push to ratify the nineteenth amendment, for women's universal suffrage. The vote for ratification took place in Nashville, Tennessee in 1920. Anti suffragists were out in full force attempting to keep women at ...more | |
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“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
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“For all who see God, may God go with you. For all who embrace life, may life return your affection. For all who seek a right path, may the path be found, And the courage to take it, step by step.”
― Worship That Works: Theory and Practice for Unitarian Universalists
― Worship That Works: Theory and Practice for Unitarian Universalists
“Saving one dog will not change the world, but surely for that one dog, the world will change forever.”
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“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
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