Yet the comparison seems odd in scale and in principle: the gulag embodied the Soviet system; Guantánamo is a blot on the American one.

然而，这一对比在规模和原则上显得有些怪异：古格拉式苏维埃制度的体现；而关塔那摩则是美国的一个污点。

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Alan Ball, who won an Oscar for writing "American Beauty" before joining HBO to create "Six Feet Under", contrasts HBO with the "gulag" of broadcast television.

阿兰·波尔(Alan Ball)曾因编写《美国丽人》这部电影获得奥斯卡奖，这之后他加入HBO并创作了《六英尺下》，他把HBO与广播电视台中的“古拉格监狱”相对比。

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It doesn't hurt that his American wife is also a celebrity: the Polish translation of her book on Stalin's gulag has been a bestseller.

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