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(OT) Alexander Solzhenitsyn dies at 89.
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VOA & BBC & DW News - Alexander Solzhenitsyn Dies at 89
On Aug 3, 4:22*pm, wrote:
www.monstersandcritics.com He was a Good guy.Rest in Peace Alexander. cuhulin Alexander Solzhenitsyn Dies at 89 -source- VOA News - 03 August 2008 http://voanews.com/english/2008-08-03-voa25.cfm -source- BBC News - 03 August 2008 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7540038.stm -source- DW News - 04 August 2008 http://www.dw-world.de/dw/0,2142,1429,00.html NOTE - Voice of Russia [RUVR] presently has NO 'news' of the Death of Alexander Solzhenitsyn http://www.ruvr.ru/index.php?lng=eng http://www.ruvr.ru/main.php?lng=eng&e=51 http://www.ruvr.ru/main.php?lng=eng&e=175 BURR - Some 'interesting' reading on the Voice of Russia [RUVR] {English} Website about the "Evil" USA . . . http://www.ruvr.ru/index.php?lng=eng Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn |
(OT) Alexander Solzhenitsyn dies at 89.
On Aug 3, 7:22*pm, wrote:
www.monstersandcritics.com He was a Good guy.Rest in Peace Alexander. cuhulin Yes, he was a Good guy. His magnum opus, The Gulag Archipelago, was one of the books that opened my eyes when I was a young man. Rest in Peace Alexander. Cato |
(OT) Alexander Solzhenitsyn dies at 89.
On Aug 3, 4:22*pm, wrote:
www.monstersandcritics.com He was a Good guy.Rest in Peace Alexander. cuhulin Saying Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn is a "good guy" is kind of like saying Edison was "kind of clever" or Einstein was "sort of smart". :) A remarkable man of seemingly infinite courage to speak truth to power, he told the awful story of Soviet-era gulags and the horror that was Stalin's Russia, even though doing so was incredibly dangerous. He was also a Renaissance Man, who was as comfortable with advanced mathematics as philosophy or writing literature. No, calling this man anything less than a hero is underestimating his legacy. Surely he inspired courage in others to help overthrow the rotting Soviet system. (History shows Communism and Fascism, far left and far right, always ultimately fail under their own bureaucracy and corruption, however.) May he rest in peace. I am glad he lived long enough to see the end of Russian totalitarianism and long enough to be appreciated in his own land. Let's hope, where Russia is drifting in that direction at times, it will never, ever drift so far left or right as to destroy freedom. |
(OT) Alexander Solzhenitsyn dies at 89.
On Aug 3, 4:22*pm, wrote:
www.monstersandcritics.com He was a Good guy.Rest in Peace Alexander. cuhulin On a related note, the English language TV channel "Russia Today" is available for free, either via streaming over the Internet at: http://www.russiatoday.ru or via Galaxy 25 satellite http://www.lyngsat.com/galaxy25.html/ at 97 West longitude, carrier frequency 11966 Mhz (11.966 Ghz), Horizontal polarization, MPEG-2 digital, video PID = 7001, audio PID = 7002. In North America, a 76cm / 30" dish with a LINEAR LNBF is required for good reception. Well-produced, and obviously espousing a Russian viewpoint, it's a good source for seeing what the leadership in Russia wants to say. Reading between the lines is always a fun game. I'm not sure whether satellite signals are on topic or off. They are radio transmissions, and at a wavelength of about 2.5 centimeters, you can definitely argue it's a "short" wave. ;P |
(OT) Alexander Solzhenitsyn dies at 89.
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