Word: solzhenitzyn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which we know little" was how Neville Chamberlain dismissed Czechoslovakia at Munich. Forty years later, do we really know (or care) that much more about what is happening in Eastern Europe today? Granted this has been a "Human Rights" year; the Harvard community this summer sat reverentially through Solzhenitzyn's Commencement speech condemning the West's lack of resistance to the Soviet Union--and of course we all condemned the show trials of the Helsinki monitoring group. But blandly cheering on courageous dissidents like Ginzburg and Scharansky as they take part in some goodies vs. baddies soap opera...
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