In American politics the nation of Russia, especially as personified in its leader Vladimir Putin, becomes all things to all men. To American leftists, Russia is a neo-fascist, violently nationalist country that ruthlessly suppressed minority groups, especially homosexuals. To the American …
Tag: Solzhenitsyn
End-Times Buffoonery
Politics and religion all too often assume odd and distorted forms in America. The United States has long been the home of a wide assortment of bizarre and eccentric sects and cults, most being harmless, or at least lacking the …
Washington’s ISIS Scam
In his classic novel 1984, the 20th century British writer George Orwell depicted a repressive, single-party state that sought to justify and expand its total domination through perpetual war against distant foes, employing the tactic of rallying the masses “around …
Meet the Chechens
During his time in early-1950s Kazakhstan, exiled Russian nationalist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was able to observe the behavior of various Soviet nationalities deported by Stalin to Central Asia in the Second World War. From Estonians and Volga Germans to Kalmyks, Koreans …
Solzhenitsyn: Stolypin’s Murder
After a series of pogroms tore through Russia in 1886, the young philosopher Vladimir Soloviev would exercise his prophetic impulse. Neither a slave to social fashions nor a stranger to controversy, Soloviev was a friend to the Jews out of …
The Soul of the East 