Nobel prize winner Solzhenitsyn dies at 89

[lilicooc100]

What a great ,smart person,thank you God for giving him to us. No He is not a hero .....,He is a holy man..Thank you God!!!!!!

[lilicooc100]

He is a holy man ,and will be holy for ever...

[mikeplay007]

Fuck your grave you fucking pig and trator.

[Fridaey13txhOktober]

Wouhou, at last that scumbag got killed!

Someone gotta dig his body upp, choppe it upp and feed it to the pigs.

[Eladas334]

Of course he supported aggression against Vietnam. Solzhenitsyn was an ardent anti-Communist, and Vietnam was a socialist state. This is another thing that I disagree with Solzhenitsyn on.

No, he wasn't a humanist. Lots of writers weren't/aren't humanists, but it doesn't exactly matter. It's an irrelevant fact unworthy of mention.

Uh... by the way, sorry if you're getting this comment twice, I don't think it posted the first time I tried.

[Eladas334]

He was a hypocrite. Undeniably.

Nevertheless, remains one of the greatest writers of the 20th Century, and also one of the most important. Quoting Gorky and Sholokohv (great writers both) doesn't change that.

"He collaborated with Russia's enemies in America". Well... that just doesn't make any sense. Of course he collaborated with Russia's enemies in America, America was full of Russia's enemies, and Solzhenitsyn wasn't exactly waving the sickle and hammer from his rooftop.

[Fridaey13txhOktober]

Eladas334, he expressed regrets Hitler didn´t win the war and supported the Vietnam war, because it killed americans.

[Eladas334]

@Fridaey13txhOktober

Bullshit

[Fridaey13txhOktober]

Eladas334, you visited his grave?

[Eladas334]

No, that is untrue.

His criticisms of Western democracy, dislike of pop culture and endorsement of an austere Russian religious order raised raised his readership's eyebrows to the ceiling and provoked calls mainly consisting of "now hold on a second here Aleksandr..." from Western governments.

They provoked much the same reactions from my parents (Marxists, I might add, who fought with the IRA), and I was thinking very much the same thing when I read of them.

[Eladas334]

Solzhenitsyn's endorsement of an austere and religious Russia was a little hypocritical, considering his views on the oppressive and dictatorial Soviet regime.

Still a great writer. The Cancer Ward, The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich were his classics.

[versus79]

The only thing he was wrong on was Holodomor, which was the worst genocide in history. 7-10 million Ukrainians were intentionally starved to deaht.

[RussianPeace1]

I'm against him on Vietnam, banning Catholic priests from Russia, and "total" opposition to NATO expansion but like him overall. Take a look at my background

[frankenshank]

God rest this great man's soul...

Aside from the Bible, Gulag Archipelago is the greatest book I have ever read.

With all the news about "pop icons" that we are saturated with daily, the media should have given a whole DAY of coverage to this hero.

God Bless him

He will be missed

[suevushka]

Vechnaya Pamyat, servant of God, Aleksandr.

[Achilles1389]

Pictured on page 79 of the Gulag Archipelago II are the leading administrators of the

GREATEST KILLING MACHINE in the history of the world.

They are Aron Solts, Yakov Rappoport, Lazar Kogan, Matvei Berman,Genrikh Yagoda, and Naftaly Frenkel.

ALL SIX ARE JEWS.

[Agenor333]

4) Putin: re-unveiling the soul of his people. balancing the two, Solzhenitsyn said: i think every nation must respect herself. That's a statement of the obvious, my friend! Welcome to the REAL World!

What could u object to that?

[Agenor333]

Mr Solzhenitsyn went thru 3, i meant THREE, centuries, each times telling the souls, facts, the real about the truth of the time! This man knowned the worst and the better of this world. Whitout any politically pt of view!!! For me, from the deepest of my hearth, this man is almost a prophet as he knows the whole Humanity. U w'r near, u'll be next by, GOD! The Cross wasn't as meaningful since centuries!

[chuschanc]

Which truth, mister? His books are huge collections of evil (not white) lies. His life is a perfect example of meanness. He was a crystal pure rascal in every sense of the word

[Agenor333]

1) Hope of Justice by sharing (eq communism) the trend more than his personal convictions.

2) Fighter under the Red Army during WW2 facing nazis.

3) Dessidence toward it's heavy psychologic indoctrination and criminal systems: automated executions, Goulags, everyday and everything spying (Staline, Kroutchev, Brejnev...).

[Agenor333]

"His life is a perfect example of meanness"

The truth is meaningless?

Welcome to Staline's world! Hey, ur master has lost forever... Wake-up!!! Race counts, religions counts, idéologies are good for trash!

Bring back the real!

[chuschanc]

>>The truth is meaningless?

once again: truth was his weakest part. Basically his books are lies with few glimpses of truth in them. If you read and compare them with competent historical research, that becomes pretty obvious.

>>Hey, ur master has lost forever

who is that?

[cossack207]

sadly there are people like you

[chuschanc]

Sadly for whom? If you feel uncomfortable, go consult a psychologist

[cossack207]

no-- I just want to kick you in the head-

please send me your address--

people like you who spread lies will always be among us--Thank GOD for Aleksandr!!!!!!!!!!!!

[chuschanc]

better go fuck yourself or jerk off in front of Solz's portrait

[slavophile1]

RIP.

[zweivier7SDG]

Rest in Peace, Mr. Solzhenitsyn! You are the brave warrior for humanity and truth!

Another era was coming to its conclusion...

[Fridaey13txhOktober]

zweivier7SDG, he was nothing but a pedo freakazoide crook that ripped off millions of imbeciles with his fag-ass books and ass-pull claimes.

[louis12346]

The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.

And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling in terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase,

[ronoman88]

The man was truth. I wonder why his book about the 200yr relationship between Russians and Jews in Russia has not been published in English?

[WaterfrontEnt]

Wow it sounds like Solzhenitsyn really had a lot to tell, especially when writing about the whole Soviet prison system. He was also out spoken against the west for not following their foundation principles, moral values. He liked the early West, not the modern, I don't blame him. I don't care where he was from, he stood for good for all man kind, and didn't let anyone change his belief, especially when it came to the importance of God. He knew! I want to read his books. R.I.P. Mr. Solzhenitsyn.

[lynx29]

a great thinker who dared to expose Georgian scum and their dirty deeds and crimes against Slavs.

[lynx29]

a true thinker who dared to expose Georgian scum and their dirty deeds.

[oduvanchikk]

What a great man! I am very saddened by his passing. His works are priceless...

[simonneilscanlan]

Solzhenitsyn, Solzhenitsyn--a former pipe-fitter welder from Harrogate

[x11115]

he was at his own funeral. look at :24.