[lbo-talk] Re: Gulag

[Brad DeLong]

>Michael Pugliese wrote:
>
>><URL: http://www.anneapplebaum.com/gulag/intro.html >
>>
>>And fate made everybody equal
>>Outside the limits of the law
>>Son of a kulak or Red commander
>>Son of a priest or commissar . . .
>>Here classes were all equalized,
>>All men were brothers, camp mates all,
>>Branded as traitors every one . . .
>>
>>-alexander tvardovsky,
>>"By Right of Memory"
>
>Why do we have to go over this ancient territory again? What's the 
>point, really? To feel sensitive and moral and superior? To 
>discredit Cuba? To aid and comfort the unbearable Leo Casey?
>
>Doug
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This thread did start with an observation that the GULAG was smaller 
than many had feared/imagined--that Medvedev and not Conquest appears 
to have had it largely right.

If there was a point to declare that this is not of general interest, 
it was presumably there...

Brad DeLong