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...Another is that for the sake of preserving détente, the U.S. has become almost a partner in immorality. Washington, maintaining that peaceful relations with Moscow are paramount and that it has no business interfering in Soviet internal affairs, looks the other way when Moscow expels dissenters like Solzhenitsyn and compels dissatisfied Soviet Jews to remain...
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...Your article on Solzhenitsyn [Feb. 25] failed to explain the significance of why the Soviets chose to deport him via the Federal Republic of Germany: by doing so it would be "returning the traitor to his ideological homeland...
...xenophobic Russia's unsophisticated people, this can only imply that if he were not in fact a "Nazi," why should he thus depart for Germany? The Germans were of course too flattered (and perhaps humanitarian or naive) to understand or question the advisability of accepting Solzhenitsyn's deportation...
...Estonian lawyer to whom Solzhenitsyn attributes his conversion from Marxism to democratic principles was Arnold Susi (named in The Gulag Archipelago), a member of the last legitimate Estonian government on national soil. He could not make it to freedom abroad in 1944 when the Russians again invaded Estonia, and was subsequently arrested by the Soviets solely because he was a well-known national figure. He was sent to prisons and labor camps in Russia, where he met Alexander Solzhenitsyn...