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[woodface]

"It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations."

~ Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

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[darklightluna]

*twitches likeatwitchingthing* *has Issues with Solzhenitsyn*

[woodface]

I honestly wouldn't know. Just read the quote and it made me think.

[darklightluna]

See, the thing is? The reason S. got so popular outside the USSR was a. he had very good translators and b. he would use people and then ruin them. He saw nothing wrong with capitalizing on other's losses. And when the man who made him who he was needed help, he pretty much told him to go screw and left the guy to die. And of course S is the one who got popular, and the 100s of much better and more popular Soviet authors ... didn't.