Once again, We are Living in Solzhenitsynesque Times

BY STEPHEN PAX LEONARD The Soviet dissident and intellectual, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, famously said: “to destroy a people, you must first sever their roots”. Solzhenitsyn spent eight years in a Gulag for criticising Stalin and knew a thing or two about ideology, hard labour and anti-Soviet propaganda. Today, in a different time, geography and ideology entirely, our own Prime Minister seems to be waging war on … Continue reading Once again, We are Living in Solzhenitsynesque Times

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BY ALEX STORY “The simple act of an ordinary brave man is not to participate in lies” said former Soviet dissident Solzhenitsyn upon winning the Nobel Prize in 1970. He had written The Gulag Archipelago, a three-volume non-fiction investigation on the notorious Soviet forced labour camp system in which millions were imprisoned, tortured and often killed – Most for no reason. Much more quickly than … Continue reading No Rights