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...arrest and deportation of Alexander Solzhenitsyn should not surprise the world, as it is a logical outgrowth of the greatest assault ever mounted on the human spirit, which began under Lenin and did not cease with the death of Stalin. What should surprise us is the fact that while we are momentarily outraged by the injustice done to one great man, we forget or ignore the grinding tyranny under which Soviet citizens live every day. Defenders of Solzhenitsyn are properly legion, but who has defended Raiza Palathnic, Slyvia Zalmanson, Sinyavsky and Daniels, the four Jewish dissidents convicted last week...
...Solzhenitsyn does not live and write in order to vent his personal spleen against the Communist regime. "The Gulag Archipelago" was written to remind us that the concentration camps still exist and that millions continue to die in them, and to remind the U.S. of its criminal stupidity and moral fecklessness in failing to combat Soviet oppression of its people. Although Solzhenitsyn himself may now be safe, the Soviet dictatorship still remains...
...express our support for Solzhenitsyn and the Russian people for whom he is willing to die, the United States must immediately suspend all cultural and economic contacts with the Kremlin despots. To hope that these contacts might bring about a liberalization of Soviet rule in the face of last week's events is not only naive, but fatuous. To continue them merely serves to stain the honor of the United States beyond earthly redemption. Laurence Krute '74 Jewish Defense League Stephen Rosen '74 Young Americans for Freedom
...Solzhenitsyn retorted in his detailed statement that "for 29 years Vitkevich did not ever reproach me for my behavior at the investigation-but how convenient it is now to have him join the general chorus." The reliability of Vitkevich's belated accusations appeared questionable. Experts noted that handwritten notations were never permitted on the record of a prisoner's interrogations. Moreover, Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev ordered the destruction of the dossiers of all rehabilitated prisoners in the early 1950s...
...reality, Solzhenitsyn and Vitkevich had exchanged letters criticizing Stalin when both were Red Army officers in World War II. Solzhenitsyn writes in Gulag that this was the cause of their imprisonment in 1945. After being confronted with the letters, Solzhenitsyn was sentenced to eight years of hard labor, plus "perpetual exile"; Vitkevich got ten years, without exile. But last week Vitkevich claimed that Solzhenitsyn had betrayed him and three other people, including the writer's own wife, in order to get "a lighter sentence." As proof, Vitkevich alleged that when he was released in 1957, he was shown part...