Comments on: "Gulag Archipelago" Author Dies In Russia

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Nobel Prize-Winning Memoirist, Was 89 Years Old

[stn_sage]

There appears to be a Universal Law of Balance. One can see how peoples in China, Russia, and elsewhere have more freedoms, more materialism, more hope, and more of a future; and we in the United States---because of BUSH and the GOP---have LESS of ALL these things! :(

[marshall_nee]

Posted by stn_sage at 06:18 AM : Aug 04, 2008

If REX 84 is ever implemented, then we are 100% there.

[stn_sage]

Solzhenitsyn lived in a society, where even the common citizen was watched, his mail examined, his phone tapped, where broadcast & newsprint was used to keep the public uninformed & misinformed, where truth and justice were just theories and not applied in law, where for the humble and poor life was very hard, and the majority suffered, where the politicians spat upon the public, and saw them as chattel to do with as they willed---it''s amazing how America has come to resemble his world of the 1950s!

[neoconrcrazy]

his life story is testimony to the individual suffering of citizens when their government abuses the power entrusted to it.

no, we are not living in the Soviet Union - but any attack on an individual''s basic rights and freedoms, no matter how small or well-intended - must never be tolarated - for any reason.

he came to America and told us his story - for a reason.

[oneworldusa]

Alexander Leibenstein, look him up. Visit his museum.

RIP, AS.

[pirmin3]

Rest in peace sir.

[pirmin3]

Rest in peace sir.

[andor3]

the artists may save us yet... RIP

[lemonskink]

It is with great hope, that someone will step up to the plate, and expose the Bush administration as this man did to expose the Gulags. Maybe then, just maybe those gulags will not come to the USA.

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[blackyowe]

Good man, you are a world patriot! Rest in peace!