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Mike Vernetti's avatar

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was my favorite author in college in the 70’s. He gave me peace when I was listening to my l biased left wing professors whom didn’t like me to question their opinions ( my grades suffered in some classes because of that). I’ve read all his books and each of them helped me overcome the ‘resistance’ as you stated in a previous essay.

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Barry Brownstein's avatar

Mike, That's a powerful testimony to the power of truth.

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Larry S Brown's avatar

Lie Until You Win = Main MAGA business model. The leaders will do/say anything to convince the followers to give them their money, power, and vote.

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Barry Brownstein's avatar

Robbin, Try Vaughan Williams' 5th as an antidote to despair (without denial of challenges): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsQGFlcqUmA

Before the Gulag, start with Vasily Grossman's Everything Flows: https://amzn.to/470dCBA and then move onto his masterpiece Life and Fate: https://amzn.to/49pG6X2. As great as The Gulag is, Life and Fate is arguably the greatest novel of the 20th Century.

I have written many essays on Grossman. I''ll revisit some of them in coming months.

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