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From: lkk@mit-eddie.UUCP (Larry Kolodney)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Slave labor built Siberian pipeline
Message-ID: <1122@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 28-Feb-86 19:52:35 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 28 19:52:35 1986
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In article <1720@bbncca.ARPA> rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo) writes:
>
>	....it occurred to the Sakharov Committee, the Frankfurt
>	Association for the Defense of Human Rights, a few labor
>	leaders and a handful of journalists to point out that
>	much of the labor used in building the pipeline was
>	probably slave labor from the gulags, in keeping with a
>	long-standing Communist tradition in big works projects.

Please don't forget the long-standing tradition in the American South
of using forced prison labor on road-building projects, as well as on
private property, where the owner leases these workers from the state.

Isn't this the same sort of slavery we criticize the Soviets for?

-- 
larry kolodney (The Devil's Advocate)

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