Solzhenitsyn: A Prophet Honored in His Own Country, but Not in the U.S. Media

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Brian Fitzpatrick

“It is very grievous that Pushkin's thought, that 'we can love only the dead,' is confirmed when geniuses pass away.”

-- Russian cultural ambassador Mikhail Shvydkoi, on the death of Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

Sunday saw the death of a truly great man. Alexander Solzhenitsyn was a literary genius, an indomitable patriot and a cultural critic of the highest order. He was indispensable in ending probably the bloodiest and certainly one of the most evil regimes in history.

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Solzhenitsyn: A Prophet Honored in His Own Country, but Not in the U.S. Media