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[B-Chan]

Excellent, excellent post. Those of you too young to remember the dark, dangerous years of the 1970s cannot imagine how close we came to the fall of a global night -- or how bright a beacon of hope Mr. Solzshenitsyn was.

The tide turned the next year; with the ascension of Ronald Reagan to the leadership of the GOP and of Margaret Thatcher to the post of Prime Minister of the UK, the United States, the British and the West began to awaken and arm itself against the Soviet bear that was by then within our gates. That awakening -- and the victory of Soviet communism that followed -- was in no small part the legacy of Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn.

One is reminded by this stirring speech that the meaning of the name "Alexander" is "defender of mankind"...

[Irisshlass]

Thanks..I was just discussing the other day with a friend...we can only look up...