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...Alexander Solzhenitsyn was one man who certainly was not surprised by the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan last December," says Associate Editor Patricia Blake...
...predicted that country after country would continue to fall victim to Moscow's imperialism." In this period of increasing strain in U.S.-Soviet relations and world condemnation of the Afghanistan invasion, TIME sought the views of Russia's most famous living author. Blake, an acquaintance of Solzhenitsyn's and a scholar, translator and editor of Soviet literature, was an appropriate emissary. The result, which appears in this week's World section: Solzhenitsyn's stern warning to the Western world about the threats posed by Communism. Blake is well versed in the views...
Kopelev served as the model for the kindly Communist character Lev Rubin in Alexander Solzhenitsyn's novel The First Circle. After Stalin's death, all charges were lifted against Kopelev. Last week, however, Kopelev packed himself a small suitcase in readiness for yet another possible trip to the Gulag...
Some Soviet dissidents still argue that their country's Marxist-Leninist system can be reformed from within. Not Alexander Solzhenitsyn: he has never swerved from his belief in the inherent evil of Communism. Last week, the Nobel-prizewinning novelist composed this essay for TIME in response to the crisis in East-West relations created by the Soviet conquest of Afghanistan. Solzhenitsyn argues that Afghanistan is merely the latest demonstration of the U.S.S.R.s insatiable desire for world conquest. As in his grim 1978 Harvard commencement address, he chides the West for weakness. But the West may yet prevail, he says...
Many Americans will find Solzhenitsyn's views too harsh, his vision too chilling. But the reflections of Russia's greatest living writer on today's crisis merit wide attention...