#laborcamps — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #laborcamps, aggregated by home.social.
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"[S]ix million people were sent to the #Soviet #Gulag. A quarter did not survive. Another 16-17 million were transported to strict regime #laborcamps, where the death rate was around 10%.
Within these numbers are the names of tens of thousands of #Jews of every kind, from the devout #hassid to the #assimilated #Communist.
#Stalin’s rule was fortified by spies who believed that they were repairing the world and saving it from the ravages of #fascism. The most effective of these were five young idealists who were at #CambridgeUniversity in the 1930s and who bore witness to the rise of #Hitler and the march of #Nazism across Europe.
#TheCambridgeFive: #GuyBurgess, #DonaldMcLean, #KimPhilby, #AnthonyBlunt, and #JohnCairncross sold their collective soul to Stalin. While their story has been retold countless times in many #books, the remarkable Stalin’s Apostles: The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire by #AntoniaSenior sheds new light[...]"
https://www.jpost.com/history/article-901146?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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#LGBTQ-#inclusive #church in #Cuba #welcomes all in a #country that once sent #gay #people to #laborcamps.
Proudly wearing a #rainbow-colored #clergy #stole and a #rainbowflag tucked into her #clerical #collar, the Rev. #ElaineSaralegui welcomed all to her #LGBTQ+ #inclusive #church in the #Cuban port #city of #Matanzas.
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