Posted by
Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Tuesday, August 05, 2008 3:42:54 PM
A hero of mine and of the cold war has left us and I am asking why didn't the media give more coverage to his death. I am talking about the death of Alexander Solzhenitsyn. He along with President Reagun will and should never be forgotten how they stood up to an evil government. God Bless them. Part of a story about Alexander Solzhenitsyn's death I am posting below.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning Russian author whose books chronicled the horrors of dictator Josef Stalin's slave labor camps, has died of heart failure, his son said Monday. He was 89.
Through unflinching accounts of the eight years he spent in the Soviet Gulag, Solzhenitsyn's novels and non-fiction works exposed the secret history of the vast prison system that enslaved millions. The accounts riveted his countrymen and earned him years of bitter exile, but international renown.
And they inspired millions, perhaps, with the knowledge that one person's courage and integrity could, in the end, defeat the totalitarian machinery of an empire.
Beginning with the 1962 short novel "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich," Solzhenitsyn (sohl-zheh-NEETS'-ihn) devoted himself to describing what he called the human "meat grinder" that had caught him along with millions of other Soviet citizens: capricious arrests, often for trifling and seemingly absurd reasons, followed by sentences to slave labor camps where cold, starvation and punishing work crushed inmates physically and spiritually.
(Read more about this man who stood up to evil
here.)
