Editor’s Note: Zek is a Russian slang term for a
prison or forced labor camp inmate.
Five years have passed since the demise, on August 3,
2008, of the great novelist, dissident, and thinker Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
Forty-five years ago, on August 25, 1968, seven people demonstrated in the Red
Square heroically against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, thus ushering
in an era of open dissent and ruthless persecutions, including forcible
internments into psychiatric institutions. More than twenty years ago, in
December 1991, the ideocratic empire called the USSR collapsed. As historian
Boris Souvarine, who wrote an unsurpassed Stalin biography, noticed mordantly:…..
The Solzhenitsyn effect, associated with the publication
in the West of his non-fiction monument titled “The Gulag Archipelago,” a most
devastating indictment of Sovietism, engendered a mutation in the global
perception of communism and contributed to the inexorable de-legitimization of
totalitarianism. The Soviet myth was dealt a mortal blow. Communist “humanism” turned
out to be similar to the Nazi one. The Bolshevik “conscience” was not different
from the Fascist one. No one has
demonstrated more persuasively than Solzhenitsyn the duplicitous, schizophrenic
nature of communism, its absolute moral falsity…..To Read More…..
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