Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Pope John Paul II were all instrumental in bringing down the Soviet Union and freeing Eastern Europe. This is just my opinion, but I don’t think they could have done it without Solzhenitsyn. I read One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in high school, and, nearly forty years later, consider it one of the most influential books I ever picked up. Solzhenitsyn was a brilliant writer, a patriot and a prophet. When the intellectuals of the West were embracing the Soviet vampire, wanting America to bare its throat for the inevitable, it was Solzhenitsyn that reminded us of the nature of the beast.
God bless Alexander Solzhenitsyn. He will be missed.
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Amen to that, Mushroom!
That is a great book, written by a great man!
Godspeed, Mr. Solzhenitsyn.
Cooncur. What amazes me is how his passing was page 9 news. That's a sorry commentary on our times.
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