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From: rastaman@ihdev.UUCP (Floyd Hydrozoan)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Slave labor built Siberian pipeline
Message-ID: <542@ihdev.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Mar-86 11:04:15 EST
Article-I.D.: ihdev.542
Posted: Mon Mar 10 11:04:15 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 11-Mar-86 19:25:33 EST
References: <1720@bbncca.ARPA> <1122@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Reply-To: rastaman@ihdev.UUCP (Floyd Hydrozoan)
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In article <1122@mit-eddie.UUCP> lkk@eddie.UUCP (Larry Kolodney) writes:
>In article <1720@bbncca.ARPA> rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo) writes:
>>
>>	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
>...
>Isn't this the same sort of slavery we criticize the Soviets for?

Sure!  It will be just as soon as we make it illegal to be a Jew, or
a dissident (You don't like the administration's policy on Nicaragua?
Off to the road crew, scum!), or make it illegal to fall out of favor
with the party.