642 Solzhenitsyn - Banned All Over Again

Solzhenitsyn - Banned All Over Again

Newletter published on 12 January 2014

Peter Myers, January 12, 2114

Alexander Solzhenitsyn's last book is facing the same censorship in the
West that The Gulag Archipelago faced in the Soviet Union. That's
because it deals with the Jewish role in the Bolshevik Revolution.

Solzhenitsyn's book Two Hundred Years Together was published in Russian
in 2001/2. Since then, German and French editions have been published,
but no English-language edition.

The Guardian reviewed it as follows:

Solzhenitsyn breaks last taboo of the revolution
Nobel laureate under fire for new book on the role of Jews in Soviet-era
repression

Nick Paton Walsh in Moscow
The Guardian, Saturday 25 January 2003 21.32 AEST
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/jan/25/russia.books.

Solzhenitsyn was never a Nazi or Nazi supporter. On the contrary, during
World War II he was a Commander in the Soviet Army which conquered East
Germany. A letter he wrote, criticising Stalin, was intercepted and
opened by the Secret Police, and led to him being sentenced to eight
years in the Gulag, after which he was sent to internal exile. During
his imprisonment, exile, and treatment for cancer, Solzhenitsyn
abandoned Marxism, returned to spiritual values, and repented of some of
the things he had done in the Army.

The Gulag Archipelago was fiercely criticised in the Soviet press, even
though the book was never published there. Similarly, if you study the
Wikipedia webpage on Solzhenitsyn, you will note similar fierce attacks
on him in the United States, even though his 200YT has never been
published there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn

Solzhenitsyn was no apologist for Capitalism. He deplored the
destruction of the Russian economy after the fall of Communism, and
urged the West to turn from decadence and materialism back to spiritual
values.

He is a prophet for our times.

More at http://mailstar.net/Solzhenitsyn-200YT.html

You can download the pdf of Two Hundred Years Together at
http://mailstar.net/Solzhenitsyn-200YT.pdf

It covers the Bolshevik period except for Chapter 15, which is not fully
translated.

You can get Chapter 15 (in part) at
http://mailstar.net/Solzhenitsyn-200YT.html