Posted 2 Nov 2010 · Report post 'Doesn't anybody smile in Russia anymore?" Rep. John McDowell of the House Committee on Un-American Activities asked the novelist Ayn Rand. "You paint a very dismal picture." It was 1947 and Rand, a Russian émigré, was giving testimony before the committee regarding life in Stalin's U.S.S.R.-----By the time the U.S.S.R. fell, some 30 million individuals had experienced the Gulag personallyGulag Share this post Link to post Share on other sites