Remembering Solzhenitsyn

The writer who bore witness to Soviet tyranny from the inside.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn left us “too quickly,” said Jonah Goldberg in the Los Angeles Times. The dissident writer who “bravely told the world about Soviet barbarity” and others in his generation learned “hard lessons” about the evils of communism. “The amnesia bites a little deeper” as we lose them.

Solzhenitsyn, who died Sunday at 89, “once wrote that ordinary individuals have a responsibility to ‘not participate’ in lies,” said The Christian Science Monitor in an editorial, but artists have a duty to try to “defeat the lie.” And Solzhenitsyen showed that the pen carried enough power to do just that.

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