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August 03, 2008
Alexander Solzhenitsyn dies at 89
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7540038.stm
Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who exposed Stalin's prison system in his novels and spent 20 years in exile, has died near Moscow at the age of 89.
The author of The Gulag Archipelago and One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich, who returned to Russia in 1994, died of either a stroke or heart failure.
The Nobel laureate had suffered from high blood pressure in recent years.
Odds are though, you've never read the Gulag Archipelago, never read the Puzzle Palace, never heard of the Con Son Island Tiger Cages, and you think the TSA is a fine organization. Go back to sleep, comrade. All is well.
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Posted by Rob Kiser on August 03, 2008 at 05:48 PM
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I, contrary to your assumption, read the Gulag when it first came out and one particular lesson I learned was that he maintained that the reason the Gestapo was able to get away with taking all those folks off to the jails,etc, was that they went quietly, so as not to disturb their neighbors, thinking that they would straighten out the mistake in the morning. Now get busy with your reading. It takes more than an afternoon. ;-)
Posted by: rob on August 03, 2008 at 11:04 PM