Goanetters Re the post below, I can say that, I have read Solzhenitsyn and Sharansky. I was particularly moved by Solzhenitsyn's account of prison slave labour in the Siberian wastes.
I had some reservations about what was produced by Sharansky as his determined bid to seek exit from the Soviet Union, for Israel, was very evident in particularly demonising the Soviet Union. However, I am totally satisfied to have reported exactly what I, and those with me, witnessed over three weeks in 1969 in the western sector of the Soviet Union. Clearly, any difficulty over my factual reporting, could only be in someone seemingly incapable of understanding that there would inevitably be differences in different scenarios. A prison camp in Siberia would hardly be similar to the hive of activity in metropolitan Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev. Likewise, is it so difficult to understand that under American control, Guantanamo is not the same as trendy San Francisco, let alone the Rust Belt in the USA? Cornel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mario Goveia" > Goanetters should read "The Gulag Archipelago" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn > and "Fear No Evil - The Classic > Memoir of One Man's Triumph over a Police State." by Natan Sharansky to > see whether citizens of the old Soviet Union really reconciled religion > with communism, or not. BTW, both these authors spent more > than three weeks in Russia in 1969. _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
