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I'm well aware of Solzhenitsyn's life, convenient though that you didn't mention the reason he was imprisoned as a result of his counter-revolutionary, pro-Nazi activity. Alexandr Solzhenitsyn never even hid his pro-Nazi feelings; in fact he accused Stalin for driving the USSR to war instead of making an agreement with the Third Reich. He always seemed to believe it was Stalin who was to be blamed for the millions of Soviet victims in the war against fascism and not the imperialist, expansive policy of Nazi Germany! Years after the end of the Second World War, he even stated: “The German army could liberate the Soviet Union from Communism but Hitler was stupid and didn’t use that weapon”. By “weapon”, he meant the efforts of various counter-revolutionary, anti-stalinist groups to dissolve the USSR from within. Such a patriot...

Also worth noting that his Fascist sympathies weren't limited to the Nazis either, he openly supported a number of far right governments around the world, including Pinochet in Chile and Suharto in Indonesia. He even agitated for Vietnam to be attacked again after its victory over the US. And more: after 40 years of fascism in Portugal, when left-wing army officers took power in the people’s revolution of 1974, Solzhenitsyn began to propagandise in favour of US military intervention in Portugal which, according to him, would join the Warsaw Pact if the US did not intervene! In his lectures, Solzhenitsyn always bemoaned the liberation of Portugal’s African colonies.”