Talk:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Solzhenitsyn's Harvard Speech

Vietnam War Once in the United States, Solzhenitsyn urged the United States to reconsider its attitude towards the Vietnam War (which had ended in April 1975). In his commencement address at Harvard University in 1978,[54] Solzhenitsyn alleged that many in the U.S. did not understand the Vietnam War. He rhetorically asked if the American Anti-War Movement ever realized the contemptuous laughter which, he said, their actions had always provoked among the elderly men in the Soviet Politburo. Solzhenitsyn also accused American anti-war activists of moral responsibility for the political repression that followed the Fall of Saigon: "But members of the U.S. antiwar movement wound up being involved in the betrayal of Far Eastern nations, in a genocide and in the suffering today imposed on 30 million people there. Do those convinced pacifists hear the moans coming from there?"[54]

Nowhere can I find any of this in his speech. Please, follow the link to the speech: None of the above is to be found there. Please, remove it (if it's fake) or revise it with the correct information (if it does in fact exist).Mwidunn (talk) 20:39, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

Indeed, I did not find it. Removed. I also included a secondary RS about this. My very best wishes (talk) 02:05, 7 June 2018 (UTC) Does appear in this ref. It is another question what should be cited, but this is something he said. My very best wishes (talk) 04:05, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

frenkel thought up the prison camp system?

According to author Elisa Kriza, "Although it is true that the central theme of the [The Gulag Archipelago] is to protocol the longevity of the Soviet prison camp system and therefore condemn communism as a whole, it contains other ideological arguments too. One of them was that the prison camp system was thought up by Naftaly Frenkel, a “Jew” who hated Russia."

Please do not restore an idiotic claim that frnkel invented prison camp system. Really??? Someone has to read wikipedia before write wikipedia. - Altenmann >talk 06:57, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

References

 Everything written in this article is to the point and very informative. Marta.tkachuk (talk) 19:59, 5 February 2019 (UTC)

On page 207, Kriza writes that Solzhenitsyn's accusation and his depiction of Frenkel is skewed by "anti-Semitic stereotypes". Pay attention, people. Frenkel did not invent the gulag, the camps existed even before 1917. They were expanded by Stalin, but not by Frenkel.