found online by Raymond
From Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit:
First off, as I mentioned there, One Day in the Life of Ivan Desniovich was not meant to be an instruction manual. (I mention that one in particular for it is among the thinnest of Solzhenitsyn’s works. You can read it in a few hours and if you haven’t, then get thee to a bookshop for elsewhere.)
Second. Almost every one of those kids will grow up. They will know that it was the United States government which tore them from their parents. Wherever they end up being deported to, and regardless of whether they are eventually reunited with family or not (I’m betting “not”), they will know that it was our government with separated them from their parents.