[antceecee]

I was spoonfed the solzy crap in college ... What a huge let down that was... I still have a painting I made during that time of this fraud.

[BroJoeK]

antceecee: "I was spoonfed the solzy crap in college ... What a huge let down that was... "

Sorry, I just couldn't get into Solzhenitsyn.
Sure, he opposed Stalinist Communism -- so how much brains does that take?
But his criticisms of western culture sound like less-than-full-throated American conservatism to me.

But, if you want a Russian-soul author that I'd recommend -- and more important that both Ayn Rand and Rand Paul recommend -- read Dostoyevsky's Brothers Karamazov and Crime & Punishment.

I believe Ayn Rand patterned John Galt's speech after (and in response to) Dostoyevsky's Grand Inquisitor.