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Varlam Shalamov versus Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | The Charnel-House
▻https://thecharnelhouse.org/2019/06/06/varlam-shalamov-versus-aleksandr-solzhenitsyn
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Few authors are so commonly cited in anticommunist literature as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Since the appearance of The Gulag Archipelago in the early seventies, it has been invoked at every turn by everyone from the “new philosophers” of France to the Canadian self-help guru Jordan Peterson. No doubt Solzhenitsyn is a great author, from a purely literary standpoint. His reactionary politics are quite separate from this consideration, but ought to have been of much more concern to Jewish ex-Maoists like Bernard-Henri Lévy and Alain Finkielkraut (who are constantly on the lookout for left antisemitism, yet seem to ignore Solzhenitsyn’s numerous antisemitic statements).
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Guantanamo Bay authorities ban Solzhenitsyn’s ’The Gulag Archipelago’:
▻http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130822/09182124281/guantanamo-bay-authorities-ban-solzhenitsyns-gulag-archipelago.shtml #Guantanamo #censorship #Solzhenitsyn #Gulag
Some stories, you just couldn’t make up...
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Une carte interactive de l’incarceration aux Etats-Unis
The Sentencing Project Interactive Map
►http://www.sentencingproject.org/map/map.cfm
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  ►http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2012/01/30/120130crat_atlarge_gopnik
  Over all, there are now more people under “correctional supervision” in America—more than six million—than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height.
  ▻http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2109777,00.html
  Is this hyperbole? Here are the facts. The U.S. has 760 prisoners per 100,000 citizens. That’s not just many more than in most other developed countries but seven to 10 times as many. Japan has 63 per 100,000, Germany has 90, France has 96, South Korea has 97, and Britain—with a rate among the highest—has 153. Even developing countries that are well known for their crime problems have a third of U.S. numbers. Mexico has 208 prisoners per 100,000 citizens, and Brazil has 242. As Robertson pointed out on his TV show, The 700 Club, “We here in America make up 5% of the world’s population but we make up 25% of the [world’s] jailed prisoners.”
  
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  Infographic : Is This Justice ? ▻http://www.usprisonculture.com/blog/2013/02/22/infographic-is-this-justice
  
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Overincarceration in America
►http://www.aclu.org/blog/prisoners-rights/overincarceration-america
Mass incarceration on a scale almost unexampled in human history is a fundamental fact of our country today — perhaps the fundamental fact, as slavery was the fundamental fact of 1850. In truth, there are more black men in the grip of the criminal justice system — in prison, on probation, or on parole — than were in slavery then. Over all, there are now more people under ‘correctional supervision’ in America — more than six million — than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height.

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