It has long been clear to me that Solzhenitsyn
is no friend of "the Enlightenment", including the formal-democracies
of The West that have lionized him:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/solzhenitsyn/harvard1978.html
"Is it true that man is above everything? Is there no Superior Spirit
above him?"
"As long as we wake up every morning under a peaceful sun,
we have to lead an everyday life."
[--C'est triste.]
I say to you, Mr. Abraham Solzhenitsyn: Go find your Isaacs some
place else....
Alas, there is indeed a some place else, and he knows and tells us
exactly where it is: Mother Russia.
--
As for Mother Russia, I now think we've created an even worse monster than
I originally thought, when we bankrupted the slowly-moderating Soviet
Union. A collapsed Soviet Union as a breeding ground for
drug-resistant tuberculosis and petty thugs was bad enough.
But now we're dealing
with a revanchist Imperial Russia under Czar Vladimir I, with
nukes and oil (Sound familiar, Mr. Bush?). My mental map or Eurasia still
has a city named: Leningrad (albeit it also has one named: Chernobyl).
\brad mccormick
Ed Weick wrote:
----- Original Message -----
*From:* Ed Weick <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*To:* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*Sent:* Friday, April 28, 2006 7:09 AM
*Subject:* Solzhenitsyn
This is an ancient Russian fear and it's well grounded in Russian
history. Over the centuries, Russia has been attacked by the Mongols
from the east, by the Turks and others from the south and by the
Swedes, Poles, French and Germans from the west. Fear of attack and
being overrun is a major reason for Russia having established its
colonial empire, not an overseas empire but a contiguous one -- a
variety of "stan" republics to the east; Chechnya, Georgia, Ossetia,
etc. to the south; the Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova to the west.
Solzhenitsyn is not alone in his fear of being encircled. A current
series in the Globe and Mail suggests that many Russians now feel more
vulnerable than they have for a long time. And with good reason.
Their influence over Afghanistan is gone, at least for the time
being. The trans-Caucuses republics -- Georgia, Azerbaijan, Chechnya,
etc. -- are either independent or trying to become independent. And
to the east you now have the relatively independent "stans" and China
which is poking around for resources and "lebensraum".
[snip]
--
Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
<![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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