And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!
Solzhenitsyn
At some point, someone is going to feel the wrath of the people
I suspect that, with or without Common Bore, Solzhenitsyn's work will not be studied in "American" gummint skewels. He wrote the gruesome truth about Russia's suffering under "liberalism in a hurry." Asked to explain succinctly what had happened there, he recalled what his elders told him when he was a child: Men have forgotten God. Sounds to me like a nation near me today.
After Solzhenitsyn was expelled from the soviet union when the KGB discovered parts of The Gulag Archipelago, and stripped of his soviet citizenship, and having won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970, Solzhenitsyn toured the west and the United States. He gave the commencement address at (even leftist) Harvard in 1978.
To the immense disgrace of the United States, His Accidency Gerald Ford, historical footnote, political hack extraordinaire, quisling and pipsqueak, REFUSED to meet Solzhenitsyn face to face although strongly urged to do so by his own administration officials Don Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney. Why, meeting with the greatest living author and most honest political historian might hurt the feelings of soviet slavemasters and other enemies of the West and Judaeo-Christian civilization! Or make Feckless Ford look less fashionable to "American" leftwing pseudo"culturati" and lamestream mass media. What might Walter Cronkite say or Eric Sevareid?