Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Poetic Obituaries: For, at a time when the Soviet monolith looked imperishable

to its architects and acolytes, he [Alexander Solzhenitsyn] warned: "The hour of peril will come, and you will appeal to your people once more, not to world communism." From the idyllic remoteness of Vermont, US, the world's most famous exile would watch the fall of the Soviet empire, the final unraveling of the Lie.

from India Today: The lie detector
also BBC News: Solzhenitsyn is buried in Moscow

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