[zapiks44]

This was posted by blogger Damien Penny. I thought it was hilarious and made a good point.

[Chad Fairbanks]

And oddly enough, Chomsky probably agrees with and supports what happened to the other two... he'd do that with most freepers if he could, I bet...

[Argus]

I would add:

Solzhenitsyn: NOBEL PRIZE

Sakharov: NOBEL PRIZE

Chomsky: BOOBY PRIZE

[Wonder Warthog]

"I thought it was hilarious and made a good point."

Right you are! A sort of not-so-sad comparison of the way the "Great Satan" treats individuals vs. pretty much ANY OTHER COUNTRY. And don't even THINK about a similar comparison with "Islam-the religion of peace(TM)". Rather than simply put into slave labor camps or internal exile, it would be "condemned to death" and/or "assassinated".

[Drango]

Solzhenitsyn: spent years being tortured in slave labour camps

Chomsky is torturing me with his blather...

[Isle of sanity in CA]

Ping

[George W. Bush]

Chomsky: spent years as a highly-paid, tenured professor of linguistics at MIT and drives a snazzy red Audi A4.

I rather like this part.

Solzhenitsyn: ignored and/or demonized by the Western "peace movement". Sakharov: ignored and/or demonized by the Western "peace movement". Chomsky: worshipped by the Western "peace movement".

Three blatant lies in a row. Unless he's referring to the "peace movement" on Western Pluto.

I still rather like reading Chomsky. Unlike most of the Left, he can write a structured and consistent argument and is quite good at digging out little-known tidbits of history.

Unfortunately for his arguments, the evildoers of the capitalist state do fail in their roles as minions of Satan from time to time. I suppose they have to sleep and eat and attend the kids' recitals like anyone else.

[zapiks44]

I'll add a few of my own:

Solzhenitsyn:Foremost scholar on the tyranny of Stalinism

Sakharov:One of first Russians to question the arms race and human rights in the USSR

Chomsky:Never met a foreign policy he didn't call '"genocide"

Solzhenitsyn: Returned to loving crowds in Russia

Sakharov:Mourned by millions in Russia and the West after his death

Chomsky:Defended Khmer Rouge

[js1138]

I think the relevant soviet is Lysenko. Try making that comparison.