Solzhenitsyn's prophecies

[fridi]

We often hear the name of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Russian social prophet and political moralist and the author of the GULag Archipelago being cited as an exemplary dissident, visionary, and fighter for freedom, especially in the context of the Western form of democracy. Well, I'm afraid I'll have to disappoint those who are willing to use him as some kind of paragon. I for one am pretty sure he would've supported Putin's current actions, including the annexation of Crimea. Having considered himself a Russian patriot first and foremost, he would've qualified these actions not so much as a neo-imperialist act, but more like a "consolidation of the traditional Russian territories". In other words, uniting territories that are perceived as part of one indivisive entity in the first place.

Let's not fool ourselves, Solzhenitsyn was no fan of the West...