Gulag

“For the people, of the people, by the people.” These words were uttered by American Pfc. James Dresnok, who is the main speaker of this film. Crossing the Line is a documentary that follows 4 western defectors who lived in communists North Korea. All of these men, to my surprise had entered into North Korea willingly and were not captured or necessarily prisoners of war. They had all abandoned there posts and went to North Korea for a variety of reasons, even they can’t explain the exacts…

Union. He used show trials which were used to gain more power and support for Stalin. These were radical trials which were filled with false information and the total death count from these trials was about 680,000 and another million died in the Gulag. As you can see Stalin was a filled with paranoia, which led him to kill so many of his own men.…

In the Cold War’s passing, the idea of historians bringing to light the truth of what happened during it without the influence of political barriers setup. This brought the hope that a more open study of the period may bring about a new comprehension, with the new evidence available. In 1945: The War That Never Ended, Gregor Dallas takes a new approach to the view of World War II and the Cold War that followed, starting from the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact of 1939 to the end of the 1950s.…

Orwell’s Inspiration Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Benito Mussolini; what do all of these names have in common? To some, they are the benevolent leaders that rescued their countries from obliteration. On the contrary, they may also be considered as the ruthless totalitarian rulers who were responsible for some of the most heinous events in history. However, for George Orwell, these powerful men were an inspiration. Throughout his entire life, Orwell had numerous "experiences that involved…

“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don 't let the bastards grind you down(Atwood, 185).” The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopian novel about the collapse of the United States. There was a large population drop and the new government, known as Gilead, created a caste system to best repopulate the country. Women are seen as less than men and are deprived of individual rights. Women who are fertile and are able to have children become handmaids, often times, against their will. Handmaids are…

help gain the support of the people. In Russia, Stalin took aggressive measures to get his country to where he wanted to be. He used propaganda to inform his people of new policies such as the law on terrorist organizations and terrorist acts, and gulag camps. These are just two of the many policies that Stalin had put into place. When it came to his government, he made work unfair due to the low salary and provided little food and water for people at work. In order to show the people how well…

During the Cold War, the fear of communism grew in America. As a result, the American government implemented ways of abolishing any communist sympathizers by attempting to stop their ideas from spreading. These organizations confined many Americans, even those who were not involved. The organizations began to ban people in Hollywood and restrict movies, in fear that the American people would intrust in certain communist ideas that went against America’s democracy. Regardless of the ways they…

better place than Vietnam. Free from the grips of the dangerous, communist North Vietnam, America was paradise to the Vietnamese refugees. A refugee remarked, “compared to the bloody battlefields, the malaria-infested new economic zone and communist gulags, the squalid refugee camps scattered across Southeast Asia, the murders and rapes and starving and drowning on the high seas, California is still paradise” (Lam). California, where many of the Vietnamese immigrants arrived at, was heaven.…

The Soviet cuisine encompassed a variety of tastes, from the Ukrainian salo to the Korean sliced carrots. In Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking, Anya Von Bremzen takes the reader on a personal journey through the Soviet Union’s history using food as her framework. Each chapter represents a decade infused with descriptions of her recreating dishes from that era in the present day. This book does not solely focus on the author’s personal family history, but it is simultaneously the story of a…

Within the twentieth century, various totalitarian regimes had taken control in countries across the globe. Germany’s Adolf Hitler and Italy’s Benito Mussolini gained power from their country’s political imbalance and financial struggles after WWI and through their citizen’s desperation and wounded nationalism. Germany, in particular, was entirely blamed for WWI and had to carry out the economic consequences by itself because of the Treaty of Versailles. Cuba and Russia’s fascist governments…