[C19fan]

I am sure many of the staff of the NY Times wishes Solzhenitsyn was never born.

[PGR88]

Solzhenitsyn was also a Russian nationalist.

[Interesting Times]

The Times should certainly be familiar with “total loss of credibility.”

[Freee-dame]

Every high school student should be required to read One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. It is powerful, though a short read.

[oh8eleven]

“A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich,”
One of my all time favorite books. I'll bet I've read it 25-30 times.

[cuban leaf]

I read A day in the life... and it blew me away. Building concrete block buildings in the harsh soviet winter, saving crust of bread as a ladle to scoop up every drop of soup, etc. The book really made me appreciate my life - and bread crust.

[ArtDodger]

Knew a journalist who interviewed Solzhenitsyn in the 70s. Got a long interview on tape and before he could get out of the country, the Soviets beat him in his hotel room, took his tapes and gave him 12 hours, to the next flight, to leave the country. He hooked up again with Solzhenitsyn and got the whole interview on tape and got out with it.

[SuperLuminal]

Fake news!

We all know who was responsible for the temporary dismemberment of the Soviet Union...

[gspurlock]

Check out his speech at Harvard: A world Split Apart:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuVG8SnxxCM&t=214s

A little over halfway through, he even addresses “fake news”, of course using different language.