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...Soviet citizens, the tanks that rumbled through Prague had their equivalent at home in the police's storming of Writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn's apartment, in the bulldozers crushing an unofficial art exhibition, in the new flow of political prisoners into the concentration camps that Khrushchev had virtually emptied. Some of the country's most talented dancers, musicians, writers and scholars are retreating in despair from neo-Stalinism and from cultural stagnation. Many are emigrating and defecting to the opportunities-and the pains-of exile. The remaining dissenters are depressed. Physicist Andrei Sakharov, the hero of those...
...technology. Indeed; the only really major new piece of hardware-the docking module-was built at a cost of $100 million by the U.S., though the Russians collaborated in its design. Examples like tins are frequently cited by critics of U.S.-Soviet cooperation, among them exiled Russian Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn (see box page 56), who worry that detente can be too easily exploited by Moscow...
Speaking in Russian while a translator simultaneously rendered his remarks into English, Solzhenitsyn projected the same sense of intense moral fervor that has made him one of the world's major authors. Understandably, he bitterly attacked Communism as an enemy of the human spirit. But Solzhenitsyn went on to criticize American foreign policy toward the Soviet Union. The U.S., he said, should never have cooperated with the Russians in any way, not even in forming the alliance against Hitler during World War II, and he implied that the U.S. should still be fighting Communism in Indochina...
...going to talk to you with sweet words," he said. "The situation in the world is not just dangerous. It is not just threatening. It is catastrophic!" He noted that Nikita Khrushchev used to tell the U.S., "We will bury you." Today, said Solzhenitsyn, the Soviets are too clever to say that. "Now all the Soviets say is 'détente...
...Solzhenitsyn speaks with the voice of an Old Testament prophet. While the prophets were often correct (sometimes because they helped make their prophecies come true), Solzhenitsyn's apocalyptic vision cannot be a guide to practical policy. Both the U.S. and the Soviet Union have good reason to pursue détente: the hope of reducing, if only a little and very gradually, the danger of a war that could end civilization. True, détente is risky. But the U.S. is not so weak that it need be afraid of dealing with a powerful and wily adversary...