{"id":2934,"date":"2008-08-08T11:43:44","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T15:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/?p=2934"},"modified":"2008-08-08T18:02:51","modified_gmt":"2008-08-08T22:02:51","slug":"solzhenitsyn-was-a-russian-patriot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2008\/08\/solzhenitsyn-was-a-russian-patriot\/","title":{"rendered":"Solzhenitsyn Was a Russian Patriot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB121815367233222513.html?mod=djemEditorialPage\">Wall Street Opinion Journal<\/a> | Robert Conquest | August 8, 2005<\/p>\n<p>Those of us who had long been concerned to expose and resist Stalinism, in the West as in the USSR, learned much from Alexander Solzhenitsyn. I met him in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1974, soon after he was expelled from the Soviet Union &#8212; the result of his novel, &#8220;The Gulag Archipelago,&#8221; being published in Paris. He was personally pleasant; I have a photograph of the two of us, he holding a Russian edition of my book, &#8220;The Great Terror,&#8221; with evident approbation. He asked if I would translate a &#8220;little&#8221; poem of his. Of course I agreed. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The little poem, &#8220;Prussian Nights,&#8221; turned out to be 2,000 lines! Thankfully, he and his circle helped. It was an arresting composition, increasing our knowledge of him and his times &#8212; something worth reading, and rereading, for its stunning historical background.<br \/>\n[Solzhenitsyn Was a Russian Patriot]<br \/>\nKen Fallin<\/p>\n<p>Solzhenitsyn was one of the most striking public figures of our time. How should one judge him? As a writer, up there with Pasternak? As a moralist, up there with Czeslaw Milosz? But he should also be judged as one who might have won two Nobel prizes &#8212; not just for Literature, but also for Peace.<\/p>\n<p>. . . <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB121815367233222513.html?mod=djemEditorialPage\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wall Street Opinion Journal | Robert Conquest | August 8, 2005 Those of us who had long been concerned to expose and resist Stalinism, in the West as in the USSR, learned much from Alexander Solzhenitsyn. I met him in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1974, soon after he was expelled from the Soviet Union &#8212; the &#8230; <a title=\"Solzhenitsyn Was a Russian Patriot\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2008\/08\/solzhenitsyn-was-a-russian-patriot\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Solzhenitsyn Was a Russian Patriot\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[65,18],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-2934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communism","category-politics","tag-solzhenitsyn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}