tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25230932.post1416662535176153314..comments2023-10-06T10:10:06.982-04:00Comments on La Russophobe: Echoing Santayana, Solzhenitsyn Says Neo-Soviet Russia Repeats the Mistakes of the PastLa Russophobehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05672264388217953086noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25230932.post-28725133631101587212007-02-27T23:32:00.000-05:002007-02-27T23:32:00.000-05:00Spot on, Penny! Can you believe how he could be so...Spot on, Penny! Can you believe how he could be so aloof among Americans, who so graciously welcomed him? And now we're supposed to listen to him just because he spend eight years in a concentration camp and survived cancer. You're right: He's lost his moral stature. He hasn't had any, in fact, since that infamous Harvard speech.<BR/><BR/>You're right: He is too flawed to be taken seriously anymore. Sell-out. Maybe he'll think fondly back on American when Putin sends him to another Gulag!Carlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15443799806495314131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25230932.post-65304443682650804172007-02-27T16:21:00.000-05:002007-02-27T16:21:00.000-05:00How can one reconcile Solzhenitsyn's approval of P...How can one reconcile Solzhenitsyn's approval of Putin and Russia's foreign policy?<BR/><BR/>I won't. <BR/><BR/>Personally, I think Solzhenitsyn has lost his moral stature, and, I'm saying that as one that has read and loved his works. He's a very flawed man in many ways. When he lived in the US he remained uncurious and aloof. His 1979 Harvard speech was an embarassment:<BR/><BR/>http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/solzhenitsyn/harvard1978.html<BR/><BR/>He failed to examine and did not understand a free press, captialism and democracy as an everyday process. Democracy seemed far too messy for him. <BR/><BR/>For a man who suffered and was shaped by the gulag, it's pitiful that he doesn't denounce Putin.Pennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08179466916477423331noreply@blogger.com