The mainstream media could never forgive him for telling the truth about their beloved workers' paradise.
Posted on 08/03/2008 2:40:29 PM PDT by the scotsman
'Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel prize winner for literature who was exiled from the Soviet Union and graphically portrayed life in Soviet labour camps, was dead at age 89, the news agency Interfax reported early Monday.
The agency quoted literary circles in the Russian capital.
The world famous writer and historian had not been seen in public for months. He died from the aftermath of a stroke, according to unconfirmed information.'
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A courageous and prophetic voice. May his memory be eternal.
A man of courage.
From a time when the Nobel prize meant something...
“From a time when the Nobel prize meant something... “
Oh boy did you say a mouthful!!
mrs
Hero Ping!
The opening paragraph of One Day in the life of Ivan Denisonovich, was chilling.Every one thinking of voting for BHO should be required to read this book
so they know what they can expect in the near future.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn is a prophet!!!
From his great and prophetic work “Warning to the West”:
“I would like to call upon America to be more careful with its trust to prevent those pundits who are attempting to establish fine degrees of justice and even finer legal shades of equality (some because of their distorted outlook, others because of short-sightedness, still others out of self-interest)to prevent them from using the struggle for peace and social justice to lead you down a false road. They are trying to weaken you; they are trying to disarm your strong and magnificent country in the face of this fearful threat — one which has never before been seen in the history or the world. Not only in the history of the country, but in the history of the world.”
pleikumud: - They haven’t learned because THEY DON’T CARE...”the right people just haven’t been in charge” and they think they can do it better and “right” this time.
They don’t look at the Soviet “collapse” as anything but a temporary setback...the revolution marches on.
Solzhenitsyn was a man who had his eyes opened in the most painful way possible...when those he served (unquestioningly) turned on him (as he himself stated in his autobiography - he did not question the state ideology or the superiority of the Soviet communism before he had spent some time in the camps).
It’s a lesson that, I think, that most of our useful idiot Liberals who adore the idea of socialism without understanding the brutal, totalitarian A**holes hiding behind the smiling “compasionate” masks will live to regret. The really bad part is they’ll take the rest of the country into that Hell with them.
Sort of like the old saying - a conservative is actually a liberal who’s been mugged.
Last night, on Turner Classic Movies, Charlie Chaplin’s “The Great Dictator” was on; the end fade-out scene has him giving this passionate monologue on Socialism/communism, like it’s the saviour of the world; his eyes were positively lit up. I know he was acting, but I also know that he was in fact a die-hard communist, so maybe it wasn’t acting after all.
That’s how they are - full of passionate intensity, and little brain. They’re on a mission - look at Pelosi’s statement last week - “We’re trying to save the world” - while WE pay close to 5.00 dollars a gallon for gas, and the middle class bleeds.
They are clinically insane, and they are trying to get the helm of this country.
LFOD
I try to read the Gulag Archipelago at least once a year.
God rest and keep his soul.
Chaplin was completely naive politically speaking. Especially in the 1930s when he made that film. It’s been pointed out that his elocution and gestures in that speech were startlingly similar to Hitler’s own devliery.
The whole world should weep.
Adieu Ivan Denisovich.
They are clinically insane, and they are trying to get the helm of this country.
LFOD
Unfortunately they are succeeding.
I have to echo what everyone else here said.
I remember something Todd Gitlin, a vile 60’s type, said 30 years ago—he realized that the New Left was going to die out during the summer of 1974, when he was at the Cal-Berkeley alumni swimming pool and saw dozens of people reading “The Gulag Archipelago”. He realized then that his nouveau socialism was never going to catch on.
Gulag had a big influence in the U.S. of course, but perhaps an even greater influence in Europe. The whole Sartre-led school of thought really went down the toilet.
Back then Tom Wolfe wrote a great essay (you can find it in the compilation “The Purple Decades”) entitled “The Intelligent Co-ed’s Guide to America”.
He wrote of Solzhenitsyn’s visit to the U.S. in 1975 — how many on the Left had blamed Stalin for being a monster, but how Gulag destroyed that myth and laid the “concentration camps” and “mass terror” at the feet of Lenin. How Solzhenitsyn was pulling a wagon of the dead around, forcing those on the Left to confront the fact that it was socialism, not Stalinism, at fault for what happened.
How much would history have changed if Solzhenitsyn had not survived his cancer in the early 1950’s? If there was ever a moment of divine intervention in the 20th century, it was when he was spared to write the history of the camps in order to bring down the entire Marxist lie.
What a giant. Whatever his faults, he had them as do we all, he was courageous, brilliant, and as influential as any author in our lifetime. RIP
The mainstream media could never forgive him for telling the truth about their beloved workers' paradise.
RIP
A giant has left us.
Interesting.
RIP.
Ivan Denisovich is unforgettable. Solzhenitsyn was one of two great men who helped destroy the “evil Empire” from the inside. Sharansky being the second.
Absolutely spot-on.
I just find the irony painful; here is a small, inconsequential “cog” in the Soviet machinery of state getting suddenly and brutally introduced to the real monster behind the mask, and realizing “THIS is what I was SERVING?”.
The sad fact of it is that there are those amongst us, in our own Homeland, promoting it all over again, this time with the Leviathan of government internal security forces, databases, surveillance, and other modern horrors that would make Lenin, Trotsky, Himmler, Mueller, Stalin, and Adolph positively orgasmic at the prospect of the power they could wield. They could only DREAM of the absolute control that exists now.
The statement that put it best, for me, was actor Ron Silver, at Komrade Klintonski’s inauguration; when F18’s flew overhead, that little schmuck said “you mean those are OURS now?”
“Ours” as in the liberal left’s - NOT America’s.
THAT’S what we’re up against. THAT mentality left a trail of 200 million corpses in the twentieth century and probably more in the 1800s as well; Marx wrote his obscene works starting in the 1840s, if I’m not mistaken).
God opened Alexander’s eyes in a most painful way - for the benefit of the rest of the world; and the rest of the world yawned, rolled over, and went back to sleep.
Rest in Peace, indeed, Alexy... He did HIS part; we must do ours to make sure this country NEVER goes down that road, because the other side sure as HELL is going to try to take us there.
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