The great Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn passed on tonight, August 3, 2008.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 1918 - 2008

Mr. Solzhenitsyn was a deep thinker and an outstanding writer. He used his skills and abilities, coupled with his raw courage, to awaken the world to the fact that Communism is evil and should not be tolerated. He knew from experience since he was imprisoned by the Soviet Union for seven years. His crime was writing in a personal letter a criticism of Joseph Stalin.

Mr. Solzhenitsyn’s writings did much to awaken the world to the evils of Communism. They even helped to liberate pro-Communist American professors to the deadly, thought numbing and dangerous characteristics which are a reality of Communism.

Back in the early 80s, I had the pleasure to get to know a lady who was from Ukraine. She told me how her father was a Colonel in the White Army and how the Communists, many of whom were Jews, took her and her mother who was breastfeeding her infant sister away for questioning about the whereabouts of her anti-Communist father. They had to leave her baby sister with neighbors who only had goat milk to feed her. Shortly after their return her sister died. Eventually, the Reds captured her dad and shot him. She also told me how happy her and her mother were when the National Socialists came into her town and shot the Communists! She is the person who made me aware of Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

When Mr. Solzhenitsyn wrote about the realities of the horrors of Communism, it forces Americans and Britons to ask themselves why we saved the USSR from National Socialism. If we had stayed out of the fight, Adolf Hitler and the National Socialists would have completely wiped Communism from the face of the earth.

Everyone owes Mr. Solzhenitsyn for his honesty and courage and sacrifice. What a great man!