Alexander Solzhenitsyn Set the Stage for Reagan and Walesa
Benafsheh,
You’re not Kim Zigfeld are you??? I know you don’t care for the Russians making deals with the mullahs, who probably had Klebnikov killed, but the oligarchs and people in power are just taking what kickbacks they can from deals with Iran. I don’t think they actually view Iran as a blood brother or ally, just a convenient party to annoy the U.S. with and make some money at the same time off of.
Seriously, KZ, and the Cold War fanatic Kabud, hate Russia and Russians. And worst of all, in the name of saving them, this Pharisee-like online anonymous collective troll shows no compassion for them whatsover.
If Russia really were lurching back to the Soviet model, Solzhenitsyn would have recognized it and called it. The fact that he saw Russia’s problems as more spiritual and moral than political and economic is hard for Westerners to accept, as is his statement that Putin just barely did what was possible – marshall oil wealth to try and put the country back together again, whether Humpty Dumpty can be put back together again or not. This was not exactly a ringing endorsement, just an acknowledgement of reality.
What idiot really thinks that if the men in the Kremlin suddenly became angels, Russia would stop losing population, stop killing itself with alcohol, drugs, AIDS, and bribes? And yet I see no compassion whatsoever for ordinary Russians from KZ contributor Pajamas Media, just good riddance. When a weak Russia becomes absorbed into Greater China and the Global Caliphate forty or fifty years hence, will KZ be happy? Bzerzinski and the others who always viewed the retreat and humiliation of Russian power as a good thing will long be dead and gone, but their legacy will remain. Russia needs the West desperately, and the West actually still needs Russia. Kissinger at least understands that Russia historically saved Europe, by sacrificing itself (usually inadvertently) – from the Mongols, from the Muslim Tartars, from the megalomaniac Napoleon, and from Hitler.
Solzhenitsyn said in his last interview with Der Spiegel that we would realize that someday, and come back together again as allies, just as we did in the Boxer Rebellion, WWI and WWII.
