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Who Started World War II?

(Forwarded by Evgeny Kissin on 12.11.11)









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English translation of Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago"

"Its importance can hardly be exaggerated. It helped to bring down an empire. For those who doubt that literature can change the world, here is evidence to the contrary. Solzhenitsyn's scorching, brilliant, expose of the dreary oppressiveness and institutionalised cruelty of the Soviet regime, really did contribute to the final collapse of the Union in 1989. It also exposed how, if Hitler had the deaths of well over 6 million on his hands, the figure for Stalin might be nearer 60 million. This is not only history-in-the-making, but also an absolutely compulsive read. From the opening page, when Solzhenitsyn depicts starving prisoners of the Kolyma gulags, discovering a deep-frozen, prehistoric salamander in an icy stream and devouring it on the spot, "with relish," he holds you rapt, like the Ancient Mariner, with his "skinny hand" and "glittering eye." You have no choice but to listen to him, especially when he derides those who say "It would not happen here". "Alas," he says, "all the evil of the 20th century is possible everywhere on earth." One of the very few undeniable books of the century.    (by Doris Lessing)

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A Personal Report On Soviet Jewry

Translated with an AFTERWORD by Neal Kozodoy
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Elie Wiesel
Nobel Prize recipient/author
Romanian
1992 Recipient

Forced Labour Camps

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Varlam Shalamov

"My writing is no more about camps that St-Exupéry's is about the sky or Melville's, about the sea. My stories are basically advice to an individual on how to act in a crowd... [To be] not just further to the left than the left, but also more real than reality itself. For blood to be true and nameless."

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The Case for Democracy by Natan Sharansky

The Difference between the "free society" in the West and the "fear society" in communist and other non-democratic countries

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Preface
Introduction
Is Freedom for Everyone?
A Free Society and a Fear Society
Dognut Y Peregnat
Mission Possible
From Helsinki to Oslo
The Battle for Moral Clarity
A Missed Opportunity
Conclusion

Look at this Lady - Never Let Us Forget

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Jewish Nakba Documentary: The Forgotten Refugees - 1,000,000 Jews Expelled from Arab lands...

Ever wonder why Western media never talks about the mass expulsion and persecution of Jews from Arab lands? Mind you, these people never staged any kind of intifadas, flotillas, BDS campaigns or burned the flags of their former countries.

The Forgotten Refugees is a 2005 documentary film that explores the history, culture, and forced exodus of Middle Eastern and North African Jewish communities in the second half of the 20th century. Using extensive testimony of refugees from Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Iraq, and Morocco, the film weaves personal stories with dramatic archival footage of rescue missions, historic images of exodus and resettlement, and analyses by contemporary scholars to tell the story of how and why the Jewish population in the Middle East and North Africa declined from one million in 1945 to several thousand today.

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Global Museum on Communism

Dedicated to the 100 million victims of communism worldwide

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Jerusalem : The Biography
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Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today's clash of civilisations. From King David to Barack Obama, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the Israel-Palestine conflict, this is the epic history of 3,000 years of faith, slaughter, fanaticism and coexistence. How did this small, remote town become the Holy City, the 'centre of the world' and now the key to peace in the Middle East? In a gripping narrative, Simon Sebag Montefiore reveals this ever-changing city in its many incarnations, bringing every epoch and character blazingly to life. Jerusalem's biography is told through the wars, love affairs and revelations of the men and women - kings, empresses, prophets, poets, saints, conquerors and whores - who created, destroyed, chronicled and believed in Jerusalem. As well as the many ordinary Jerusalemites who have left their mark on the city, its cast varies from Solomon, Saladin and Suleiman the Magnificent to Cleopatra, Caligula and Churchill; from Abraham to Jesus and Muhammad; from the ancient world of Jezebel, Nebuchadnezzar, Herod and Nero to the modern times of the Kaiser, Disraeli, Mark Twain, Rasputin and Lawrence of Arabia. Drawing on new archives, current scholarship, his own family papers and a lifetime's study, Montefiore illuminates the essence of sanctity and mysticism, identity and empire in a unique story of the city that many believe will be the setting for the Apocalypse. This is how Jerusalem became Jerusalem: the only city that exists twice - in heaven and on earth.

"A fittingly vast and dazzling portrait of Jerusalem, utterly compelling from start to finish." (Christopher Hart THE SUNDAY TIMES )


 
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