Yes, a lot has been written about the gulag 'system' and if my memory weren't
so cluttered I'd come up some titles, but, at the moment, I can't recollect even
the documentaries I watched recently. But surely someone or a number of
someones on this list will make up for that lack. I just realized that one of the
intersections that occurred in my being troubled by Orwell's list was watching
this account of Stalin and his lists. He would stay up late at night going
personally over the lists of those to be sent to the gulag, in rare cases, crossing
out a name, in many others, adding a name, and in some chilling instances,
writing across the top a demand for "more!" "more names." I guess in some
recess of my head these two, very different though they are, 'lists' intersected.
Oh, and while I'm here, I wanted to say, Ken, thanks for your posts in these
threads, all that impassioned questioning which I'm still thinking about,
best,
Rebecca
---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:27:02 -0500
>From: Ken Wolman <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Should have said....
>To: [log in to unmask]
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>I see that material has been written on the gulag "system," not just
>Solzhenitsyn's account and history.
>
>Why indeed is it going unheard? "Who remembers the Armenians?"--could
>it simply be callousness?
>
>K
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