Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Moral giant By Rich Lowry

"This is dangerous."

    — Soviet apparatchik Yuri Andropov, upon learning of "The Gulag Archipelago"

Andropov knew whereof he spoke. When Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's three-volume chronicle of the Soviet prison system appeared in the West in the early 1970s, it delivered a decisive blow to the moral standing of Soviet communism.

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