Posted by
ApolloSpeaks on Sunday, September 27, 2009 8:03:42 AM
Vladimir Putin with Solzenitsyn in June 2007
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the great Russian author who was ironically released from one of Joseph Stalin's gulags on the day Stalin died*, passed away five days before Russia brutally invaded Stalin's birthplace of Georgia. Solzhenitsyn's death was an unmistakable sign that Russia was about to return to its imperialist past, to the days of Soviet-Stalin expansionism, and that Putin's Russia is a neo-Soviet-Stalinist state on a dangerous collision course with the United States-emboldened by the pathological appeaser in the White House (see). In reality we are in a new Cold War with Moscow, however well disguised; and this perilous period will last until we collapse Putin's Russia like Reagan collapsed its Soviet predecessor.
It is interesting to note that Solzhenitsyn was laid to rest on August 6th the 63rd anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and the 3rd anniversary of Ahmadinejad taking power in Iran.
*March 5, 1953
Postscript: The Russian Reactionary
Though Solzenitsyn was the fearless foe of totalitarianism and atheistic Communism-his Gulag Archipelago helped level the Soviet State-his vision for Russia was a return to its pre-Communist past, to monarchy and Czarism-the divine right of Kings and the serfdom of the people. Solzhenitsyn believed in three simple things: throne, alter and hangman, a society governed by kings, priests and executioners; a state of fear where you must obey or risk death or harsh imprisonment. For Solzhenitsyn Russia’s future was the Russia of emperor and empire; imperial restoration was in his heart and mind when he died; it was his last dying wish for his sick, dysfunctional country-a country that briefly saw the light of freedom confused it with an abyss and retreated into the dark night of despotism. If Solzhenitsyn had lived past August 8th he would have joined with Gorbachev and his countrymen in praising Putin for a job well done in stealing South Ossetia and Abhakia from Georgia-feeling the same surge of national pride that Americans experienced when we liberated Grenada from its Marxist rulers under Reagan.