“The documentary is not meant to be a political film, but rather one that documents history. John Das, a medical student, took an interest in the history of religion in the Eastern bloc and discovered “Militant atheism was a cause for disaster in the entire Eastern Bloc leading to the persecution of millions of believers of many faiths.” He became the Lead Archivist for the film. Considering that Stalin died in 1953… it did not include – camp deaths after 1950, and before 1936 executions 1939-53 the vast deportation of the people of captive nations into the camps, and their deaths 1939-1953 the massive deportation within the Soviet Union of minorities 1941-1944 and their deaths and those the Soviet Red Army and secret police executed throughout Eastern Europe after their conquest during 1944-1945 is omitted.” “The consensus figure for those that Joseph Stalin murdered when he ruled the Soviet Union is 20,000,000. Rummel, Professor Emeritus at the University of Hawaii, researched the deaths of civilians under Marxist rule: He went to the gulag twice in his life for simply being a pastor. Nikolai Bobarykin was a pastor in a small town in the Soviet Republic. Vasily Vlasivich, an Evangelical Christian who refused to take an oath to the Soviet Communist Party during World War II was immediately sentenced to death but managed to escape being executed. Witness names must be attached to accounts so years from now when one asks about the martyrs to religion in Russia, martyred because they believed in God in a state culture of atheism, there will be an historic account. The need for this documentary comes from the desire to bear witness before memories are lost. Christopher Marsh of Baylor University, who is also involved in the film, said “People in Russia today also do not know of the intense persecution of Christians and Jews that occurred in the USSR, perhaps to appear more liberal or democratic to the West.” Under communism an attempt was made to wipe out all believers, which led to multi-million deaths of Jews and Christians. There is a documentary in production called Martyred in the USSR, directed by Kevin Gonzales of Twelve Points Productions, that takes us back to the USSR, to eastern bloc countries where religion was attacked under communism.ĭr. While we fight this new hate, let us not forget that there is an attack on our Christian younger brothers and sisters, today, and that they, too, were persecuted in the USSR. That conflation of anti-Semitism and anti-Westernism is part of the rise of Jew hatred, today. She died of complications from ovarian cancer on January 27, 2016.There is symmetry between the Stalin persecution of the Jews 60 years ago and the stories told today by left wing ideologues who describe Israel as a colonizer and the Arab world as blameless victims of western imperialism.
Her centerfold was credited to Arthur-James and Mike Shea. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the July 1956 issue. She was the subject of a musical composition by Fluxus artist Al Hansen "Alice Denham In 48 Seconds". She has also published a memoir, Sleeping with Bad Boys (2006), about her time among the New York circle of writers in the fifties and sixties. She is the author of the novels Amo: The feminist centrefold from outer space (1974) and My Darling from the Lions (1968), and the short story collection Secrets of San Miguel (2013), as well as the novelisations Adios, Sabata (1971) and The Ghost and Mrs. Alice Denham (Janu– January 27, 2016) was an American model, author, and former adjunct professor of English at City University of New York.
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