Solzhenitzyn is Dead

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the author of The Gulag Archipelago, a monumental chronicle of the horrors of the Soviet labor camps, has died at the "tender age" of 89, just as the ideals of Russian freedom is dying under their new premier, former President Vladmir Putin, a former KVD officer who conned his way into the presidency and is now "Premier for Life" while eliminating most (so far) of the new changes made in the wake of the Soviet communist "collapse," moving Russia back into Soviet-style socialism/communism. Bush "bought" his charade, and so did Solhenitzyn, to some degree. It's good that he did not live to see the results of Putin's machinations. (Common Sense)