KGB Putin honoring Solzhenitsyn, now that is some cognitive dissonance.... Putin must find this to be “useful” propaganda somehow.
This would have been unimaginable in the Soviet time.’
The fact he’s being honored says much about how Russia has changed.
Greatest novelist of the twentieth century.
And Seattle put up Lenin statue.
Brussels put up Karl Marx statue (with Chinese money).
Russia covers up Lenin’s mausoleum during parades.
Cats and dogs living together ...
I read somewhere the The Gulag Archipelago is a required textbook in Russian high schools. Is that true?
Solzhenitsyn supported many of Putin’s platforms - controlling Russia’s rapacious oligarchs, reversing Russia’s rapid population decline, and return of the Orthodox Church to part of public life. He also criticized Putin’s push towards government centralization and spoke freely about politics. Solzhenitsyn disregarded Putin’s membership in the KGB, noting the obvious fact that for anyone over the age of 40 in government, avoiding it would have been impossible.
Of course, Solzhenitsyn died 10 years ago. One wonders what he would say now.
GULAG Vol. II is as exciting and mind-bogglingly awesome as GULAG Vol. I.
STRONGLY recommended. “Best books of all time.”
It is a pleasure to see S. so honored.
Also, it will help more people spell his name without checking the internet...
(Ahem...)
This is astounding.
Anyone infatuated with collectivism needs to read Solzhenitsyn.
On the other hand, he did advocate for a very heavy government hand. Just not socialistic.