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Letter: Keep up the truth telling

(AP Photo) In this Dec. 12, 1974 file photo, Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn at a press conference at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm. Solzhenitsyn was central in exposing the horrors of Soviet slave labor camps from his own experiences through works such as "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich." The Swedish Academy awarded him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature." Solzhenitsyn decided not to leave the Soviet Union to receive his prize, fearing authorities wouldn't let him back. He accepted the award four years later after he was exiled from the Soviet Union. This year's winner is due to be announced on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017.

(AP Photo) In this Dec. 12, 1974 file photo, Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn at a press conference at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm. Solzhenitsyn was central in exposing the horrors of Soviet slave labor camps from his own experiences through works such as "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich." The Swedish Academy awarded him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature." Solzhenitsyn decided not to leave the Soviet Union to receive his prize, fearing authorities wouldn't let him back. He accepted the award four years later after he was exiled from the Soviet Union. This year's winner is due to be announced on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017.

By  Stanley Clark | The Public Forum
 | June 26, 2019, 7:19 a.m.

I read your “Tribune Editorial: Yes, we do have concentration camps” in the Huffpost.

Thank you.

In a future editorial or article, refer Americans to "The Rise & Fall of the Third Reich" by William L. Shirer or "The Gulag Archipelago" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The segregated and suffocating environment of President Trump's camps for children at the border would have been applauded by Hitler or Stalin.

At Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps, the children were separated from their parents on arrival, before extermination. Stalin is supposed to have quipped that his concentration camps were much more efficient than Hitler's because his prisoners had to perform hard labor above the Arctic Circle.

Separating children from their parents in concentration conditions in the desert or other isolated areas is going to scar them for life, particularly the younger ones who will end up with serious behavioral disorders.

Your courage is admirable. Keep up the truth telling.

Stanley Clark, Newtown, Conn.

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