 
 
Moving in time, changing places or simply walking along, we encounter images that display the identity of things, which are self-sufficient, becoming a quintessential image, showing us the nature of the given life form. As if form fused together with matter that makes form. There are also those images which evoke our emotions; their beauty, good and truth move us, and our relationship with the world becomes a sacrament then. Or we could be travellers without any luggage, who do not carry anything with them, neither expecting anything, nor searching, looking at everything like a child, who observes everything, wondering at everything and marvelling at everything. There is also a fourth way, perhaps the most difficult one, which brings together all those ways, shaping one’s life and making it meaningful as well as having an impact on the contemporary polis.
Ma³gorzata Sidor
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Laogai (simplified Chinese: 劳改; traditional Chinese: 勞改; pinyin: láogǎi), the abbreviation for Láodòng Gǎizào (勞動改造/劳动改造), which means "reform through labor," is a slogan of the Chinese criminal justice system and has been used to refer to the use of prison labor and prison farms in the People's Republic of China (PRC). It is estimated that in the last 50 years more than 50 million people have been sent to laogai camps. Laogai is distinguished from laojiao, or re-education through labor, which is an administrative detention for a person who is not a criminal but has committed minor offenses, and is intended to reform offenders into law-abiding citizens. Persons detained under laojiao are detained in facilities which are separate from the general prison system of laogai. Both systems, however, involve penal labor.
Boris Karlovich Pugo,OAN (Latvian: Boriss Pugo, Russian: Бори́с Ка́рлович Пу́го) (February 19, 1937 – August 22, 1991, in Moscow) was a Latvian Communist political figure.
Between 1990 and 1991, he was the Minister of the Interior Affairs of the USSR. He was a member of the August Coup in 1991. He soon after committed suicide. He shot his wife and himself as soon as he realized that the coup had failed.
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