[JimWayne]

He was only a hero because he was anti-russia during the cold war

Huh? That in itself is an achievement, especially when he lived in Russia. Have you read One Day in the life of Ivan Denisovich? I suggest you read it.

[Noumenon]

I read One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich when I was in the 7th grade. It was a private school whose libray had not yet been purged of politically incorrect books. It was an eye-opener, and I never saw the world in quite the same way since then. Solzhenitsyn was responsible in no small measure for setting me on the path to acquiring some samll comprehension of the nature of humanity and of the world we inhabit.

Reading and understanding Solzhenitsyn is one of the keys to understaning the nature of the mosnters who would rule us now.