hought that would be better in the long run. So, many soldiers had no problem with much of this work that they were doing. An example of this is the book ?One Day in the Life of Ivan Dinosovich.? This book is a biography of Ivan Dinosovich?s life inside of a Russian Gulag (a Russian Prison camp), while Russia was under a communist rule. {Written by Alexander Solscinisky, an actual political prisoner} Inside the Gulag the conditions were horrible. Millions of people died inside of the camps. In the book it states that people were sentenced to those camps for speaking out against the government, being thought to be a spy or for any number or reasons, disobeying any law. The soldiers and camp wardens could justify carrying out these horrible acts because they thought that communism was a noble cause and the people just didn?t understand that it was the best for them. The communists believed in the beginning (1917) that other countries would have the same revolutions and ideas that they had or that countries would see this greatness of communism. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said this in 1954. ?The Communists are attempting to prevent the orderly development of independence and to confuse the issue before the world. The Communists have, in these matters, a regular line which Stalin laid down in 1924. The scheme is to whip up the spirit of nationalism so that it becomes violent. That is done by professional agitators. Then the violence is enlarged by communist military and technical leadership and the provision of military supplies.?4 Two examples of this ?spirit of violent nationalism,? were Germany in the mid to late 1930?s and Russia in the 1910?s. In Germany there was a great depression. Most of the country was unemployed and poor because of sanctions for being an instigator of WW I. There was a lot of hate. Then a man by the name of Adolf Hitler became head of the Nazi party. He started making speeches which stated a lot of sel...
