Posted on 10/08/2017 4:59:09 PM PDT by marshmallow
An open artistic competition for the best architectural-sculptural monument to Solzhenitsyn, to be placed in Moscow, was announced by the Russian Ministry of Culture today. The competition is being held by the Union of Moscow Architects with the support of the Ministry of Culture, by the initiative of the House of the Russian Diaspora in the name of Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
The competition is timed to the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the noted author’s birth, which will be marked in 2018, and is being held pursuant to the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation on June 27, 2014 “On the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birthday of A. I. Solzhenitsyn.”
The monument is planned to be installed on Solzhenitsyn Street in Moscow.
According to competition organizers, sculptors, architects, designers, artists, and industrial designers have been invited to take part in the competition, as independent artists, creative collectives, and consortiums.
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In 1978, Solzhenitsyn spoke at Harvard.
A lot of people were insulted by his bluntness, yet his words were prophetic.
I doubt Mr. Solzhenitsyn would feel honored.
Forty years ago, who would have imagined that?
A stunning factoid, for those of us who came of age under Reagan.
I read a lot of Solzhenitsyn in college as part of my course work. Powerful stuff.
> I doubt Mr. Solzhenitsyn would feel honored. <
You’re probably right. But it will probably motivate at least some young Russians to read his work. That would be a very good thing.
Solzhenitsyn certainly changed my outlook on politics and life. Sometimes the underdog actually wins (even if it is posthumously). Who indeed saw this coming?
I read “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” while in the eighth grade (not assigned) in 1969. That and the invasion after the Prague Spring convinced me about Communism being just a form of brutal state control. I got in a lot of arguments with an uncle who is a hard lefty, and is just about disowned by much of the family (lot of Polish and Lithuanian).
I think I have one of his books someplace. And it is a first edition.
I read all of Solzhenitsyn when I was in school and college. A great man. It also inspired me to go back and read more Dostoevsky and to read Marx, Lenin, and the Communist Manifesto to better understand what it was all about.
In fact, for whatever reason I had a great interest in tyranny vs. revolution—which also turned out to be tyrannical. Cicero, my namesake, was one of the more decent characters, although even he had problems. It ain’t easy to straighten out a tyrannical government without bringing in tyranny of another sort.
I read the Gulag Archipelago. It is very compelling, but quite a bit of it is subjective narrative. If you want a real read, try Applebaum’s Gulag. It’s a horrific look at the gulag that not even Ivan Denisovich can approach.
This short book should be required reading for every high school student in The USA. Maybe they might not think that communism is not so bad.
I read Applebaum’s Gulag. A good 500+ pages as I remember. Interesting subject but it was so expansive I couldn’t read it all. I remember most Russians wanted to talk about something else rather than the author’s research. Like it’s time to move on. It was interesting that Stalin thought that prison could grow the Soviet Union even where it was geographically impossible. I sure wouldn’t mind dumping our illegal immigrant felons off in Siberia to jump start development there-slowly.
Applebaum doesn’t hold a candle to one day.
The weakness of Applebaum is that she thinks nothing has changed to this day. That colors her writing. The strength and genius of “one day in the life...” is taking the sweeping millions, and making you see it as the experience of one individual. And in truth, that’s what it was, the experience of one person with a name, one after the other, after the other.
Solzhenitsyn was one of a kind.
To paraphrase “Would it not be beautiful to own a gun and make every nKvD agent think twice about invading our home”.
The Left never changes. The Left just, Bolshevism, simply mutates. It is cancer. It is worse than cancer as it destroys civilizations.
Yet, those who have achieved some sort of “power” via money or prestige like a Prof., develop new mutations to support the maggot utopian lifestyle of “common man”.
I am not a common man, I have the ability to wake tomorrow morning and decide for “myself”, what I want for myself and my family.
The Communist wants top down 10% Federal love that will kill you and your families because you do not own a gun and the rights of the “”People”, belong to the Commisariate. Forgive my spelling.
Communism, Socialism has bedded itself with Sharia. Communists and Islam will fight the war against each other after the West and Christian
Capitalism has ended.
2nd Amendment.
The recognition of the right to weapons and self defense is the barometer that tells you if you are a citizen or a subject of some superiors.
No compromise on the 2nd amendment.
The scary part about this post is it sounds like a bunch of Prof’s who have read him but offer no alternatives about how to destroy Marxism.
It is Christ, Common/Natural Law and Guns.
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