1. ShinerBlonde on August 4th, 2008 at 11:22 am
   

   My post from the weekend OC thread -
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   Here are some quotes from Solzhenitsyn that strike me as very pertinent to today’s world and many of the discussions here on LST-

   Such as it is, the press has become the greatest power within the Western World, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and judiciary.
   One would like to ask: by whom has it been elected, and to whom is it responsible?

   If only there were evil people somewhere, insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

   He was a great writer and a very brave man. I’m glad he was finally allowed to return to his homeland and receive the official recognition he deserved. May he RIP.
2. BigJolly on August 4th, 2008 at 11:32 am
   

   Shiner, here is one of my favorites:

   “Over half a century ago,” stated Solzhenitsyn, “while I was still a child, I remember hearing a number of older people offer the following explanation of the great disasters that have befallen Russia. Men have forgotten God. That’s why it has all happened. And if I were called upon to identify the principal trait of the entire twentieth century, I would be unable to find anything more precise and more worthy than to repeat, men have forgotten God.”
3. Gritsforbreakfast on August 4th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
   

   At Grits, where I apparently beat you to posting on the topic by a full 12 minutes, I called Solzhenitsyn “The greatest and most effective prison reform advocate on the planet.”

   I know that’s how he’s remembered here at LST!
4. wagonburner on August 4th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
   

   He “spoke truth to power” long before it was fashionable, or safe like it is here and now.

   As I said in yesterday’s OC thread, the little Bolshie wannabe’s we have running around today should read up on this great man’s life.
5. whitetop on August 4th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
   

   He was certainly correct in his assessment of the press. They hide behind the first amendment but do not think they are accountable to anyone. This leaves them with the freedom to manufacture they news or censor it to fit their ideology. We currently have a press that thinks it is their responsibility to elect the next president of the United States. There is no regard to the fact it is the responsibility of the people to elect the president.
6. southerntragedy on August 4th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
   

   Gtotracker has been having trouble logging in. As per his request, I am posting

   This for him.
7. hamous on August 4th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
   

   Link posted for gtotracker:

   http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/
8. FourAlarm on August 4th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
   

   I’ll miss him only because he looks exactly like my high school prom date.

   If I ever make it over there to speak the Russian I learned for the 1980 Olympics, I’ll give him LST posters’ best Howdy in Texan-Twang-Roosky speak.
9. GriffithLea on August 6th, 2008 at 11:52 am
   

   Good read about Solzhenitsyn:

   Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn is Gone

   I love this quote:
   “There is a cabal that denigrates anything that runs counter to its worldview that is held quite independently of the facts.”

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