Tag: Solzhenitsyn
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Blaming Russia…Again
In American politics the nation of Russia, especially as personified in its leader Vladimir Putin, becomes all things to all men. To American leftists, Russia is a neo-fascist, violently nationalist country that ruthlessly suppressed minority groups, especially homosexuals. To the American right, Putin is the second coming of Stalin who is working to subvert good old-fashioned…
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End-Times Buffoonery
Politics and religion all too often assume odd and distorted forms in America. The United States has long been the home of a wide assortment of bizarre and eccentric sects and cults, most being harmless, or at least lacking the ability to do any serious harm outside of their immediate proximity without large-scale followings nor…
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Washington’s ISIS Scam
In his classic novel 1984, the 20th century British writer George Orwell depicted a repressive, single-party state that sought to justify and expand its total domination through perpetual war against distant foes, employing the tactic of rallying the masses “around the flag.” It was never entirely clear why the wars were happening, and the identities…
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Meet the Chechens
During his time in early-1950s Kazakhstan, exiled Russian nationalist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was able to observe the behavior of various Soviet nationalities deported by Stalin to Central Asia in the Second World War. From Estonians and Volga Germans to Kalmyks, Koreans and Crimean Tatars, none were quite like the haughty and defiant Chechens: But there was…
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Solzhenitsyn: Stolypin’s Murder
After a series of pogroms tore through Russia in 1886, the young philosopher Vladimir Soloviev would exercise his prophetic impulse. Neither a slave to social fashions nor a stranger to controversy, Soloviev was a friend to the Jews out of sincerity rather than any calculation. Two years prior, he had published an article asserting the…
The Soul of the East 