At least three slave-labor logging camps will be found on Russia's Gusinobrodskoe Highway between Novosibirsk and Kemerovo. A former prisoner told Avraham Shifrin: "The hospital wards and barracks in effect were packed with sick people. "It was cold and damp everywhere. "A stench emanated from the overfilled room. "I witnessed dozens of cases in this 'hospital' of desperate prisoners driven to self-mutilation by the brutal working conditions in the logging camps. "Instances of prisoners who had chopped off a finger, swallowed a nail, or stitched a dirty thread through the flesh of an arm or leg were common." Workers were needed in the Kolyma region of eastern Siberia to construct a port and build roads to the gold mines revealed Dalin in his 1948 book, Forced Labor in the Soviet Union. Hundreds of thousands of slave laborers were packed in the holds of ships and sent on what Communist Occupied Russia called their "Dalstroy Experiment." The prisoners were forced to work in temperatures dropping to as much as 50 degrees below zero. They had no warm clothing. Few slept inside at night. Not even so much as a tent was provided by the inhuman Red tyrants. The casualties were enormous. Fewer than one out of every 50 slave laborers survived. The Russians just kept sending more shiploads of new slaves to replace those who died. The cycle was endless. Despite authenticated stories like the above, slave-made imports from Communist Occupied Russia surpassed an astounding $200 million a year and they're still increasing Yes, the United States illegally imported hundreds of millions of dollars worth of goods produced by slaves in concentration camps throughout Mikhail Sergeyvich Gorbachev's Soviet police state. Topping this figure is the illegal merchandise pouring in from Red China's brutal dictatorship and the barbaric Iron Curtain slave labor nations. These include East Germany, Romania, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Poland and Czechoslovakia. Why do free people even consider buying slave made goods produced in the most repugnant tyrannies the world has ever known? How can Americans in good conscience purchase merchandise from merciless dictatorships where men, women, and children are held in bondage and forced to suffer under the vilest of conditions? Some of the responsibility must be shouldered by American political leaders Some must be borne by members of the national news media Both are well aware of the heinous Communist slave-labor system. Yet seldom, if ever, is it mentioned.