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Alexander Solzhenitsyn Not One To Give Admiration For
His criticism of the gulags has to be accepted,(even if over exagerated), and was accepted by Krushcev, having, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich published in the Soviet Union & on the National Curriculum of Education in Russia. You cannot take away from the fact that he was a capable & emotive writer
However, post war he became more & more anti Socialist, pan Slav, pro Tsarist, gradually degenerating towards his death towards being Anti-Semite, Islamophobic/racist, mysogenistic, Social Conservative(if not crypto-fascist), Reactionary Historical Revisionist, blaming the excesses of Stalinism on the Bolsherviks because of the infuence of its Jewish members and Jewish people in Russain Society as a whole. With great admiration for Putin and the invasion of Chechnya.
His attitudes towards Western Secularism & Vietnam War express where his politics are coming from, going back to the 1970's
[edit] The West
Delivering the commencement address at Harvard in 1978, he called the country spiritually weak and mired in vulgar materialism. Americans, he said, speaking in Russian through a translator, suffered from a "decline in courage" and a "lack of manliness." Few were willing to die for their ideals, he said. He condemned both the United States government and American society for its “hasty” capitulation in Vietnam. He criticized the country’s music as intolerable and attacked its unfettered press, accusing it of violations of privacy. He said that the West erred in measuring other civilizations by its own model. While faulting Soviet society for denying fair legal treatment of people, he also faulted the West for being too legalistic: "A society which is based on the letter of the law and never reaches any higher is taking very scarce advantage of the high level of human possibilities."[23]
Shortly after his death, professor Richard Pipes wrote of him: "Solzhenitsyn blamed the evils of Soviet communism on the West. He rightly stressed the European origins of Marxism, but he never asked himself why Marxism in other European countries led not to the gulag but to the welfare state. He reacted with white fury to any suggestion that the roots of Leninism and Stalinism could be found in Russia’s past. His knowledge of Russian history was very superficial and laced with a romantic sentimentalism. While accusing the West of imperialism, he seemed quite unaware of the extraordinary expansion of his own country into regions inhabited by non-Russians. He also denied that Imperial Russia practiced censorship or condemned political prisoners to hard labor, which, of course, was absurd."[24] While alive, Solzhenitsyn accused Pipes, who is of Jewish Polish descent, of advancing "the Polish version of Russian history".
Vietnam war
Main article: Vietnam war
In his commencement address at Harvard University in 1978 (A World Split Apart), Solzhenitsyn alleged that many in the U.S. did not understand the Vietnam War. He rhetorically asks if the American antiwar proponents now realize the effects their actions had on Vietnam: "But members of the U.S. antiwar movement wound up being involved in the betrayal of Far Eastern nations, in a genocide and in the suffering today imposed on 30 million people there. Do those convinced pacifists hear the moans coming from there?"[30]
Wikipedia
During his time in the West, Solzhenitsyn made a few controversial public statements: notably, he characterized Daniel Ellsberg as a traitor.
HARDLY SOMEONE TO HAVE ADMIRATION FOR!!!!!!
His criticism of the gulags has to be accepted,(even if over exagerated), and was accepted by Krushcev, having, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich published in the Soviet Union & on the National Curriculum of Education in Russia. You cannot take away from the fact that he was a capable & emotive writer
However, post war he became more & more anti Socialist, pan Slav, pro Tsarist, gradually degenerating towards his death towards being Anti-Semite, Islamophobic/racist, mysogenistic, Social Conservative(if not crypto-fascist), Reactionary Historical Revisionist, blaming the excesses of Stalinism on the Bolsherviks because of the infuence of its Jewish members and Jewish people in Russain Society as a whole. With great admiration for Putin and the invasion of Chechnya.
His attitudes towards Western Secularism & Vietnam War express where his politics are coming from, going back to the 1970's
[edit] The West
Delivering the commencement address at Harvard in 1978, he called the country spiritually weak and mired in vulgar materialism. Americans, he said, speaking in Russian through a translator, suffered from a "decline in courage" and a "lack of manliness." Few were willing to die for their ideals, he said. He condemned both the United States government and American society for its “hasty” capitulation in Vietnam. He criticized the country’s music as intolerable and attacked its unfettered press, accusing it of violations of privacy. He said that the West erred in measuring other civilizations by its own model. While faulting Soviet society for denying fair legal treatment of people, he also faulted the West for being too legalistic: "A society which is based on the letter of the law and never reaches any higher is taking very scarce advantage of the high level of human possibilities."[23]
Shortly after his death, professor Richard Pipes wrote of him: "Solzhenitsyn blamed the evils of Soviet communism on the West. He rightly stressed the European origins of Marxism, but he never asked himself why Marxism in other European countries led not to the gulag but to the welfare state. He reacted with white fury to any suggestion that the roots of Leninism and Stalinism could be found in Russia’s past. His knowledge of Russian history was very superficial and laced with a romantic sentimentalism. While accusing the West of imperialism, he seemed quite unaware of the extraordinary expansion of his own country into regions inhabited by non-Russians. He also denied that Imperial Russia practiced censorship or condemned political prisoners to hard labor, which, of course, was absurd."[24] While alive, Solzhenitsyn accused Pipes, who is of Jewish Polish descent, of advancing "the Polish version of Russian history".
Vietnam war
Main article: Vietnam war
In his commencement address at Harvard University in 1978 (A World Split Apart), Solzhenitsyn alleged that many in the U.S. did not understand the Vietnam War. He rhetorically asks if the American antiwar proponents now realize the effects their actions had on Vietnam: "But members of the U.S. antiwar movement wound up being involved in the betrayal of Far Eastern nations, in a genocide and in the suffering today imposed on 30 million people there. Do those convinced pacifists hear the moans coming from there?"[30]
Wikipedia
During his time in the West, Solzhenitsyn made a few controversial public statements: notably, he characterized Daniel Ellsberg as a traitor.
HARDLY SOMEONE TO HAVE ADMIRATION FOR!!!!!!
