{"id":558,"date":"2006-08-05T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-05T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2006\/08\/05\/solzhenitsyn-didnt-see-this-coming-2\/"},"modified":"2006-08-05T07:30:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-05T13:30:00","slug":"solzhenitsyn-didnt-see-this-coming-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2006\/08\/05\/solzhenitsyn-didnt-see-this-coming-2\/","title":{"rendered":"solzhenitsyn didn&#8217;t see this coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/6608\/1089\/1600\/gulag.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/6608\/1089\/200\/gulag.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>i&#8217;m sure that plenty of americans would holiday on alcatraz, but something tells me <a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/europe\/article1212780.ece?gulag\">this<\/a> gulag won&#8217;t be a huge money maker. according to <em>the independent, <\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%\">Igor Shpektor, the Mayor of Vorkuta, 100 miles above the Arctic Circle and 1,200 miles north-east of Moscow, says he is looking for an investor to turn an abandoned prison complex into a &#8220;reality&#8221; holiday camp for novelty-seeking tourists keen to understand what life was like for Soviet political prisoners at first hand.<\/p>\n<p>His idea, which has upset survivors of the prison camp, envisages recreating a tiny part of the Gulag complete with watchtowers, guards armed with paintball guns, snarling dogs, rolls of barbed wire, spartan living conditions &#8211; and forced labour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>yeesh. they probably aren&#8217;t taking volunteers at guantanamo, but &#8220;extreme tourists&#8221; who want a prison experience might be better served volunteering or mentoring at actual prisons and juvenile training schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i&#8217;m sure that plenty of americans would holiday on alcatraz, but something tells me this gulag won&#8217;t be a huge money maker. according to the independent, Igor Shpektor, the Mayor of Vorkuta, 100 miles above the Arctic Circle and 1,200 miles north-east of Moscow, says he is looking for an investor to turn an abandoned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}