Angry Old Man Outlives Soviet Union

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, fair to say one of the most important voices of the 20th century, has passed.

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I was a little bothered by the obit’s line that read “[his books] inspired millions, perhaps, with the knowledge that one person’s courage and integrity could, in the end, defeat the totalitarian machinery of an empire.” For those keeping count, the “one person” in media accounts and obituaries who brought down communism has now been Ronald Reagan, Pope John Paul II, Boris Yeltsin, and now Solzhenitsyn. Maybe after the fifth “one man” dies, they’ll get the picture that the Soviet Union and Communism “fell” for a wide range of reasons.