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Western Values Threaten Communists and Former Communists

It rankles Mr. Putin that Ukraine would seek to join the West not merely because he wants it as a satellite state. He also can’t afford to allow life to a neighboring Slav state which has even a smidgen of democratic development. His Russian people might get dangerous ideas. It’s not Western arms that threaten …

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Solzhenitsyn Warned about the Interdependency of Lies and Violence

Look at what Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote about the interdependency of lies (he called them “falsehood”) and violence: We shall be told: what can literature possibly do against the ruthless onslaught of open violence? But let us not forget that violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven …

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Solzhenitsyn Warned about the Danger of Censorship

Look at what Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote about censorship: Contemporary science knows that suppression of information leads to entropy and total destruction. Suppression of information renders international signatures and agreements illusory; within a muffled zone it costs nothing to reinterpret any agreement, even simpler–to forget it, as though it had never really existed. (Orwell understood this …

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Solzhenitsyn Warned about Communists’ Desire for One-World Government

Look at what Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote about the “leveling of nations”: In recent times it has been fashionable to talk of the leveling of nations, of the disappearance of different races in the melting-pot of contemporary civilization. I do not agree with this opinion, but its discussion remains another question. Here it is merely fitting …

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