"The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was born a 102 years ago yesterday. Below is an interesting discussion on a just released book and Chronicles Magazine has an excellent overview of the Russian dissident's life titled "Remembering Solzhenitsyn."
The Woodrow Wilson Center:
"In Book 2 of Between Two Millstones, just released by the University of Notre Dame Press, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn details his final years of exile in America from 1978 until his return to post-Communist Russia in 1994. During this time, while completing his masterwork The Red Wheel, Solzhenitsyn was both confronted by the propaganda machine of the Soviet state and the commercial mainstream media in the West. In this book talk, Ignat Solzhenitsyn and Daniel J. Mahoney will discuss Solzhenitsyn’s fight against the communist regime while defending the honor of Russia’s historic past. They will also consider how he watched as Russia came out from under the rubble of the Soviet system into a deeply flawed transition."
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