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To: Neocon who wrote (2494)	2/19/2002 1:46:53 PM
From: gao seng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7720

Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago": does anyone > recall the description in a Solzhenitsyn novel about a visit by > someone who's obviously supposed to be Eleanor Roosevelt to a Soviet > prison? With a little hard work, the prison staff was able to set > things up so she saw exactly what they wanted her to see. In > particular, she left thinking it was the most humane prison system in > the world. This is completely true. A famous real example was the visit of Bertrand Russell and some other very clever people to the Ukraine (sorry, maybe it was Georgia) in the 1930s. Peasants were dying in their millions, but these well-meaning people never noticed. It was not from a novel but from Gulag Archipelago - completely nonfiction. The visitor was Henry Wallace, Vice-President of the U.S., and he was accompanied and guided by Owen Lattimore. Lattimore was later accused of having been a communist agent, perhaps in the State Department. Camp guards simulated inmates and told how well they were treated. This was during WWII. Wallace's whitewash was widely reported. When Gulag Archipelago was published, Wallace was dead, but Lattimore was still alive to be asked how he had let Wallace and himself be fooled. He replied indignantly that he had not gone to the Soviet Union to spy on an ally. groups.google.com