Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the great Russian dissident, has died at the age of 89. Solzhenitsyn gave a face – and a powerful voice – to the victims of Soviet authoritarianism, through books such as A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and The Gulag Archipelago. His efforts earned him the Nobel Prize for literature in 1970.
Solzhenitsyn revealed just how terrible the regime was that the West faced in the Cold War. But who – if anyone – is highlighting the evils of the 21st Century world with such clarity and force? Any ideas, CoffeeHousers?
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