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Old 08-03-2008
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn, RIP

The great Soviet dissident and author has passed on. That he outlived his persecutors is no doubt due to the Almighty's sense of justice. He lived in the US for some while but could not not live in Russia. He did not desire that Russia become like the West unless, perhaps, you we're talking about 18th century America. He was as hard on the West for it's lost ideals as he was on the Motherland.

The years have caused us to forget much of what was so powerfully said and written in those last decades of the Cold War. In fact, we have a whole generation to which the Cold War might seem a distant and meaningless event. They might fine it of more historical interest if they coupled the thought of that war's end with the concept of the end of western courage.

Here's a speech given to the 1978 graduating class of Harvard by the great man. It still makes for interesting reading as the author's words still find relevance in the world today.

Solzhenitsyn's Harvard Address

edit...I should note that the above is the famous World Split Apart speech. It did not receive universal acclaim. But then, the truth is rarely popular.
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