Story Created:
Aug 5, 2008
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Aug 5, 2008
Paul Kengor remembers a giant in the cause of freedom.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, a great figure of the 20th century, is dead at the age of 89.
How does one adequately honor the man? It’s impossible to capture in one tribute what Solzhenitsyn meant, experienced, and how he went about translating it to the West in an unprecedented way...
Sunday, Aug 10 at 10:59 AM Dang Old Man wrote ...
You never read any Solzhenitsyn, did you? You never knew anything about the Soviet Stalinist Police State and how they read Solzhenitsyn's letters and put him in the Gulag for criticizing government. Now Bush and Cheney have made it "legal" to read your letters and e-mails, listen to your phone calls, and put cameras in your house to watch you... kidnap you, torture you, secretly imprison you with no trial, all on some politician's say so. Do you want Obama to have this power? Wake UP!
Saturday, Aug 9 at 10:53 PM gmatt wrote ...
I became a Conservative while reading Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago" around 1980 - I owe him an incredible debt. He began the 2nd or 3rd volume by saying something like "congratulations to the reader for having the spiritual strength to continue." It strengthened me both politically and spiritually. My favorite quote by him is "One word of truth outweighs the world." Amen
Tuesday, Aug 5 at 7:39 PM Maddie - Saukville wrote ...
"For Reagan to invoke Solzhenitsyn inside the USSR was bad enough, but to do so in behalf of religious liberty was galling." And that is why we fought the Cold War, possibly helped create Bin Laden and Ronald Reagan was and always will be one of our greatest presidents and why liberals who compare Guantanamo with Gulags so richly earn the contempt of conservatives.
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