Today in history

December 28

1973
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956, is published in the original Russian version in Paris.

The book is a first hand account of brutal and repressive conditions in the Soviet Union. It was published in the United States a few months later.

1968
Anti-draft conference launched “Don’t Register” campaign, Australia.

1996
Three arrested at Capitol Hill Post Office in Seattle for refusing to leave after attempting to mail humanitarian supplies to Iraq in defiance of U.S.-led embargo.

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