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Comments on: RIP Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn 1918-2008 https://whynow.dumka.us/2008/08/03/rip-aleksandr-isayevich-solzhenitsyn-1918-2008/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Tue, 23 Dec 2008 01:42:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2008/08/03/rip-aleksandr-isayevich-solzhenitsyn-1918-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-38452 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:42:06 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=4708#comment-38452 He became a born again Eastern Orthodox true believer, which certainly makes him part of the cult that doesn’t want the world know what a hopeless incompetent Nicholas II was.

He didn’t believe that people knew what was “good for them” and needed to be led by an aristocracy of correct thinking people, like himself.

He was a Russian nationalist & Pan-Slavist who was neither Russian nor Slavic.

His father was a Kuban Cossack, Imperial Army officer, and large landowner before the Revolution. His mother was also from the Caucasus. He was born in “Sour Water” [the literal meaning of Kislovodsk] and was sour most of his life.

He was a great writer, but, in a long tradition of Russian literature, not exactly a likable individual. Many other dissidents felt that he acted as if he was the only one ever sent to the camps that mattered.

He also held extremely controversial views on the 1930 starvation in the Ukraine, and the position of Jews in Russia.

]]> By: Badtux https://whynow.dumka.us/2008/08/03/rip-aleksandr-isayevich-solzhenitsyn-1918-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-38445 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 06:51:16 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=4708#comment-38445 Am I recalling correctly that he was a Royalist?

– Badtux the Fuzzy-recollection Penguin

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