Word: slave-labor
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...approached Father Leoni, told him he wanted to become a Catholic. After Leoni baptized him, the man turned out to be an informer. Jesuit Leoni was put on trial for carrying on religious propaganda and for other crimes-unspecified. Sentence: 25 years of forced labor at Vorkuta, the notorious slave-labor camp above the Arctic Circle. Recalls Leoni: "At Vorkuta, it is winter twelve months of the year and summer the rest of the time. That I spent over seven years at Vorkuta without dying or going crazy was due to the fact that the Lord never let me lack...
...Witness'] Chambers? Said Hermann: "I have never known whether Noel was . . ." Could Hermann explain why Noel and Herta, after doing a five-year stretch in a Hungarian prison, elected last November to stay in "asylum" in Hungary? And what about Erika, last reported to be languishing in a slave-labor camp in arctic Russia? Tearful Hermann Field was "afraid I'm not much help in an explanation of the whole Field case." Suggested he: "People who have not spent the last five years in a cellar are more likely to know the truth than...
...since the 1880s." That part of Russia, said he, is "an empire-within-an-empire, the slave state of prison labor and forced-residence workers" that extends thousands of miles and is ruled by the MVD. "All life in those regions is incredibly harsh and grim." Salisbury saw hundreds of labor gangs of men and women going blankly about their jobs under the eyes of armed MVD agents. Almost all the buildings in the area are put up by slave-labor construction gangs, but the difference between the working conditions of "free" and slave labor in Siberia is negligible. Salisbury...
...that Russian Moslems such as the Crimean Tartars and the North Caucasians (who were deported and exterminated) had been punished by God, not by the Communist government. Replied Raschid: "I am a Tartar. I saw with my own eyes how the mosques were destroyed and the clergy sent to slave-labor camps in Siberia." He produced photographs to prove...
...husband again after she was arrested in the Latvian city of Talsi. She, too, was hauled to Siberia in a crowded cattle car. The Communist slavers put her and other women to work on collective farms. Now & then she saw work gangs of Latvian men from a nearby slave-labor camp. "They were just like skeletons," she said. "They were young men with deep black eyes...