The Great Man

[foma_fomich]

Just think of what might have happened had Solzhenitsyn lived under a Great Western Leader. Imagine Solzhenitsyn living under Churchill and criticising Him.

One possibility is that we might not have heard about what Solzhenitisyn could have written about the Great Man.

foma fomich

[mastodon]

The things Solzhenitsyn critiqued were not as obvious and/or evident under Western governments. If you are referring to freedom of speech [or the lack thereof], I would agree that there are unfair censors in societies that claim to be completely 'open.'

I suppose we are lucky that Solzhenitsyn bore all that he did. Without his suffering, we would not have his tremendous contributions to literature.

[flying_unicorn]

But was he really a great man? What would constitute A Great Man for our times? I can say he was a great thinker, a great writer, but a great man?...

[foma_fomich]

well this is how Sir Winston Churchill is otherwise called in "certain Western circles", the Great Man.

not sure whether he was Great as a man, but might as well be in other "capacities", or say, sub-categories of man. Like? well, say Great Salesman?

Mysterious quotation:
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at any rate, flying unicorn, you still haven't voiced your comment on "New Year's Joke", posted at "Open Board", by

foma fomich

"The so-called Great Man" is merely one of altogether too many British Imperialist nogoodnik ratfinkovitches. A real Great Man is Russia's own Vladimir I. Vernadsky! PEACEPROSPERITYJUSTICE!T.

[vorosilov]

Originally posted by tovarisch
"The so-called Great Man" is merely one of altogether too many British Imperialist nogoodnik ratfinkovitches. A real Great Man is Russia's own Vladimir I. Vernadsky! PEACEPROSPERITYJUSTICE!T.

Dear Tovarish,

How could I know more about the great Vernadsky?

You and Ragnvald made me interested.

[Ritta]

I remember as Soldzenitsin was coming back to Russia...As I remember he, himself, wasn't going to depart for Russia. But by that time he began to critisize American's government and American mode of life. And so it became the main reason that American services "helped" him to "return" back to Russia! And it was not so difficult, as you can imagine, because the new leaders came in Russia by this time.