Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist, historian, and short story writer. He was an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union and its totalitarianism and helped to raise global awareness of its Gulag forced labor camp system. He was allowed to publish only one work in the Soviet Union, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, in the periodical Novy Mir. After this he had to publish in the West, most notably Cancer Ward, August 1914, and The Gulag...
addition book call finished knowing next
This book is an agglomeration of lean-tos and annexes and there is no knowing how big the next addition will be, or where it will be put. At any point, I can call the book finished or unfinished.
jailer policeman rather soviet states union united united-states
I'd rather have the United States be the world's policeman than the Soviet Union be the world's jailer
flames moment paralyzed state suddenly though
I was in a state of witless shock, as though flames had suddenly enwrapped and paralyzed me so that for a moment I had no mind, no memory.
deprive doubt leaves preparing russia
All this leaves no doubt that they are preparing to completely encircle Russia and deprive it of its sovereignty.