One of the most celebrated cases is that of Igor Sutyagin, a former researcher at the Institute of the U.S.A. and Canada who was sentenced to 15 years in a labor camp for giving supposedly secret information to Alternative Futures, an English consulting firm.

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The new Peter Weir film, loosely adapted from an unreliable memoir by Slavomir Rawicz, is about a bunch of prisoners who escape from a Siberian labor camp in 1940 and set out on the long trek back to civilization.

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The Hungarian-born Lantos came to the United States in 1947 after surviving a forced-labor camp in his Nazi-allied homeland.

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