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. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lauri 0924 (talk • contribs) 13:11, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

CIA's role in disseminating Solzhenitsyn's work in USSR

The New Yorker alleges that "The C.I.A. supported the publication of underground books in the Soviet Union by such authors as Boris Pasternak and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, a ploy that the agency knew would enrage the Kremlin leadership and deepen anti-Soviet sentiment among dissident circles inside the country." Source: "Private Mossad for Hire", by Adam Entous and Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 2019, online: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/02/18/private-mossad-for-hire (accessed Tues., Feb. 12, 2019) 2600:1702:2FF0:1D00:8563:4D65:93D8:714B (talk) 04:33, 13 February 2019 (UTC)

US Military (NSA) role in disseminating Solzhenitsyn's work to the West

William Eldridge Odom "while serving at the United States embassy in Moscow in the early 1970s managed to smuggle out a large portion of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's archive, including the author's membership card for the Writers' Union and Second World War military citations" Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Eldridge_Odom

A reasonable conclusion is that Soviet and US Intelligence agencies were in fact working together to promote their own respective controlled oppositions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.153.109.219 (talk) 21:27, 31 August 2019 (UTC)

Section: On Russia and the Jews

Cited to D.M. Thomas's Solzhenitsyn biography, the "On Russia and the Jews" section quotes a comment from Daniel Pipes in a review of "August 1914" printed in The New York Times of 13 November 1985, giving the impression that Pipes is the review's author. That article may be read here. It will be seen that the author is actually Richard Grenier. It will also be seen that other people quoted defend Solzhenitsyn.     ←   ZScarpia   20:46, 6 October 2019 (UTC)

You are welcome to fix/improve it. Personally, I think that certain passages form his certain books can be regarded as antisemitic, but that's irrelevant. There was indeed a debate about it, and it should described neutrally. My very best wishes (talk) 20:52, 6 October 2019 (UTC)

Two more fixes. Frenkel was indeed an important figure; the book was hardly a bestseller. My very best wishes (talk) 22:47, 8 October 2019 (UTC)