Heroic Dissident and Nobel Prize Winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn R.I.P.
Solzhenitsyn bravely told the world about the Jewish role in Communism before he died.
by James Buchanan
An AFP article reports “Nobel prize-winning Russian writer and dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who shone a light on brutal Soviet Gulag camps, has died at the age of 89 and global tributes were made on Monday. Recognizable in later life by his flowing beard and ascetic dress, he had been frail for several years and died of heart failure late Sunday, his son Stepan said, quoted by ITAR-TASS news agency. The Soviet Union’s last leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, said Solzhenitsyn had helped undermine Stalinism by changing the views of millions through his writing. Solzhenitsyn won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1970 after depicting in harrowing detail the Soviet labour camps, where he spent eight years from 1945. He toiled obsessively to unearth the darkest secrets of Stalinist rule and his work ultimately dealt a crippling blow to the Soviet Union’s authority.”
Alexander Solzhenitsyn was sentenced to years of suffering in the Soviet prison system for speaking his mind about Stalin’s government. After Stalin’s death, criticism of Stalin was increasingly permitted. Solzhenitsyn wrote the “The Gulag Archipelago” detailing the horrors of the Soviet prison system. He received a Nobel Prize in literature, was expelled from the Soviet Union and became popular in the West for a number of years. There was just one little problem for the conservative country club elite who had at first warmly received him. Solzhenitsyn was determined to tell the whole truth, including the dominant Jewish role in Communism. (more…)