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 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.
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 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.
One of my heroes.
Everything that is wrong with society is right here; please look at the first 10 to 20 quotes and you will see “I”, “I read”.
Ok, what did you learn from the greatest read ever? Just “I Read”? Telling isn’t it. When millennial’s just Read to read and decide that reading is all all that is needed... that is what the Bolshevik Prof wants!!!!