Word: solzhenitsyns
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...After attempting to make heroes of such American complainers as Ralph Nader, Cesar Chavez, Daniel Ellsberg and the late Dr. Martin Luther King, the Eastern news establishment now seeks to deify Alexander Solzhenitsyn, formerly a complainer in the Soviet Union...
Freedom of the press, so widely misused in this country, is not the way of life in the Soviet Union. Solzhenitsyn's behavior was understandably judged there by Soviet standards. We should not try to tell the Soviets how to judge their citizens, any more than they should tell us how to judge ours...
...reminded of a Dutch joke: In the year 2000, a schoolboy was asked who Brezhnev was. After a pause, he answered: "An unimportant Russian statesman in the time of Alexander Solzhenitsyn...
...first time since his deportation from the U.S.S.R. last month, Alexander Solzhenitsyn has broken his self-imposed silence. He did so in an apocalyptic 15,000-word open letter to the leaders of his country, which was written last September in Moscow and recently revised while he was in exile in Switzerland. It has remained unpublished until now. In the letter the Nobel-prizewinning writer lays out his program for the salvation of the Russian people. He appeals to the Kremlin masters to abandon the entire basis of their power: Marxist ideology, industrial development, nuclear supremacy and imperial domination...
Almost contemptuous of the future of Western democracy-especially in the U.S.-Solzhenitsyn asserts that for Russia there can be no alternative to authoritarian rule in the foreseeable future. This, he argues, must be based on national self-interest, and not on ideology.He believes that the Sino-Soviet conflict critically endangers Russia's future...