Alexandr Solzhenitsyn is dead
He signed my copy of Gulag Archipelago when I was a teenager and I vowed to help fight the Eastern Bloc, but shortly afterwards the USA stole the USSR and thwarted my dreams.
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Alexandr Solzhenitsyn is dead
He signed my copy of Gulag Archipelago when I was a teenager and I vowed to help fight the Eastern Bloc, but shortly afterwards the USA stole the USSR and thwarted my dreams.
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Alexandr Solzhenitsyn is dead
He signed my copy of Gulag Archipelago when I was a teenager and I vowed to help fight the Eastern Bloc, but shortly afterwards the USA stole the USSR and thwarted my dreams.
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"I started out with nothin' and I still got most of it left" - Seasick Steve
Yep. I read Gulag in my teens and was profoundly moved by Solzhenitsyn's account of Stalin's labor camps. Incredible story.
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He was a tough old coot. I'd give him points for outliving the entity that wasted so many years of his life.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
I'm slightly ashamed to admit I've never read anything by him. I've often wanted to too, though.
And yet, somehow, when it's summertime, and I'm lounging by the swimming pool with a glass of Pastis in my hand, in the blazing sunshine , I've tended to pick something light-hearted over a first-hand account of the horrors of the Gulag.
But now that he's dead, I'll give it shot.
And yet, somehow, when it's summertime, and I'm lounging by the swimming pool with a glass of Pastis in my hand, in the blazing sunshine , I've tended to pick something light-hearted over a first-hand account of the horrors of the Gulag.
But now that he's dead, I'll give it shot.
Wait until winter, and read it outside as much as is feasible. You'll have a lot more sympathy for his experience.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Samira wrote:
Wait until winter, and read it outside as much as is feasible. You'll have a lot more sympathy for his experience.
That's fine, as long as I can wear my Gore-tex jacket, cashmere scarf, silk gloves, and stay under my portable patio heater.
RedPhoenixxx wrote:
Samira wrote:
Wait until winter, and read it outside as much as is feasible. You'll have a lot more sympathy for his experience.
That's fine, as long as I can wear my Gore-tex jacket, cashmere scarf, silk gloves, and stay under my portable patio heater.
"I started out with nothin' and I still got most of it left" - Seasick Steve
Nobby wrote:
I preferred Ivan Denisovich's take on that.
I read that!
Shockingly, my Russian lit teacher was one of the funniest professors I ever had.
In retrospect, she was probably insane.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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