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...Communist leaders of Soviet Russia are outraged by comparisons between Stalinist Russia and Hitlerite Germany made by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn. They condemn Solzhenitsyn for informing the free world that the Government of Imperial Russia was "liberal" and "loving" toward the people and that Hitlerites were "gracious" and "merciful" both to the Russians and the peoples of Eastern Europe, which the West failed to protect from the Soviet occupation...
...same issue of The New York Times which carried news of Solzhenitsyn's arrival in Switzerland reported as well, on a back page, the use of "behavior modification" in U.S. prisons. The example of Iowa was cited extensively. "When it was determined necessary to administer the drug," wrote the appeals court in the case, "the inmate was taken to a room near the nurses' station which contained only a water closet and there given the injection. He was then exercised and within about fifteen minutes he began vomiting. The vomiting lasted from fifteen minutes to an hour...
...manipulable, formable, breakable, at the last; whenever he is considered to be of no intrinsic worth, but only a thing, a useful thing or a useless thing; whenever the human being is mocked and broken, and right and wrong fall silent or are cast out, the admonitory finger of Solzhenitsyn points as firmly at us as it does at his own countrymen. He reminds us that the place "beyond freedom and dignity" is a place of cruelty and terror, where the justice and beauty and worth of a human life are trampled into the dust. And he reminds us that...
...Russia that he loves, Alexander Solzhenitsyn has seen these human values destroyed by the absolute and arbitrary power of a despot ("the regrettable excesses of the personality cult") and by an increasing rigidification of ideology, belied briefly by relaxation in the early 1960s, when his own first novel "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" was published, followed by long years of increasing harrassment and official vilification. In the America of the late 20th century, it is unlikely that a dogmatic ideological totalitarianism will ever take root. But the apathy in moral questions to which a pluralistic society...
Carol Korot '74-2 helped organize tomorrow night's forum, "Solzhenitsyn: Issues and Implications...