Our Threatened Freedom

What are the Facts of Soviet Slave Camps

Professor: Dr. R.J. Rushdoony

Subject: Political Studies

Lesson: 166-169

Genre: Conversation

Track: 166

Dictation Name: Vol. M - Part 10 - What are the Facts of Soviet Slave Camps

Location/Venue: Unknown

Year: 1980’s – 1990’s

[Dr. Rushdoony] What are the facts about Soviet slave camps? This is R.J. Rushdoony with a report on our threatened freedom.

We have recently had some very contradictory figures released concerning Soviet slave labor camps. According to Under Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger, there are four million prisoners, of whom 40,000 only are political, working out of 1,100 camps.

Refugees from these slave labor camps give a very different account. {?}, a Russian who served 8 years in slave camps, testified recently before the Senate Banking Committee in International Finance. According to {?}, there are 2,000 camps, and up to seventeen million men, women and children engaged in forced labor for political reasons.

The State Department said that 11,000 Vietnamese are working on the gas pipeline. A former member of the Vietcong estimated that Vietnamese slaves are between 24,000 and 60,000, and that half a million Vietnamese would be used according to plans. {?} called attention to the fact that eve official Soviet publications reveal that the slave camp deaths are now 7 to 8 times higher than during the Stalin terror period. Other refugees have stated plainly that without the slave labor, the Soviet economy would collapse. The workers in Soviet factories have a declining productivity, and the real production is slave production. Thus we have a monstrous slave state, the Soviet Union, history’s major slave power together with Red China, receiving more foreign aid from us than any other country in the world. American tax payers are helping to keep a slave state alive with their tax funds. Our state department admits that slave camps exists, but it understates the number of camps and slaves, and it continues to deal with an evil power as though it were a community of honorable gentlemen. The Soviet Union was behind a murder attempt on Pope John Paul the 2nd, but our State Department seems unconcerned about the matter.

Something is wrong with this picture. The United States should be the champion of the free world, not the mainstay of the slave states. We should offer hope to the oppressed, not aid to their oppressors. Are we doing this because we ourselves are now opposed to freedom? No nation can export freedom if it does not practice it at home, and treasure it.

This has been R.J. Rushdoony with a report on our threatened freedom.