Showing posts with label Solshenitsyn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Solshenitsyn. Show all posts

Sunday, August 3, 2008

Solzhenistyn Dead

Aleksandr Solzhenistyn has died at the age of 89. His books documenting the horrors of the Soviet gulag system provided constant reminders [to me] why we fight against fundamentalist right-wing christian fanaticism, and its main enabler, conservatism. And why we fight fundamentalism everywhere in the world, whatever form it takes.