http://www.russiatoday.com/news/news/30872
How close has the Patriot act brought us back to this reality!
Because the reality of the similarities are showing
The memory of Stalin's purges still haunts the area, with some residents still living after surviving the Gulag.
Semyon Vilensky was arrested in 1948 when he was twenty years old for singing a comic verse about Stalin at a student gathering.
That cost him first a prison term and then seven years in labour camps.
