THE PASSING OF A TRUE RUSSIAN PATRIOT..........R.I.P SOLZHENITSYN

Submitted by gueguense on 3 August, 2008 - 22:17.

Today, the conscience of Russia and anti-communist intellectual, Alexander Solzhenitsyn has left us.

His towering works documenting the tyranny of the Soviet "workers paradise" forever vaccinated me against radical chic naivete.

While others were reading Sartre and De Beauvoir in the 1960's, I was reading his mind numbing accounts of communist oppression in Gulag Archipelago and the much shorter Ivan Denisovich.

When the embryonic piricuacos were rabble rousing in Managua in elitist circles with Fonseca Amador's "Nica en Moscu", I countered with Solzhenitsyn!.

Farewell old friend! rest in peace knowing you exposed and denounced communism's savage inhumanity and triumphed over same!

Adios viejo amigo!, descansa en paz sabiendo que lograste exponer y denunciar la bestialidad inhumana del comunismo y lograste vencerlo!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv_ivQRyDr8

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damn it Gueguense

Submitted by BlackEagle on 4 August, 2008 - 08:09.

You gotta quit it man. First we agree on reggaeton as shite and then here you come trotting out one of my favorite authors of all time, Alexander Solzhenitsyn. I've read most of his books and came away with a profound understanding of the inner workings of the Soviet system.I'd have to say Cancer Ward was my favorite.

Just out of curiosity ever read "Masters of Deceit" by J. Edgar Hoover. It was an interesting book-not what one would have expected when one thinks of J. Edgar.

Here's a quote- "Communism has something to sell to everybody. And, following this principle, it is the function of mass agitation to exploit all the grievances, hopes, aspirations, prejudices, fears, and ideals of all the special groups that make up our society, social, religious, economic, racial, political. Stir them up. Set one against the other. Divide and conquer. That's the way to soften up a democracy."

I subscribe to no particular brand of politics myself other than vague leanings toward Jeffersonian democracy and a serious bent toward creative anarchy. I distrust all governments, all preachers and all used car salesmen.