#The persistence of time free#
Through bitter experience, Solzhenitsyn arrived at this firm conclusion: The communist regime and ideology were in decisive respects at odds with the deepest wellsprings of human nature and with the moral norms that constitute a free and decent society. As a result, he became one of the most courageous and consequential moral witnesses of the twentieth century. He experienced the ideological Lie from within. He had spent eleven years in prison, camps, and internal exile where, thankfully, the scales of ideology fell from his eyes.
As for Solzhenitsyn, he knew of what he spoke. In the words of Martin Malia, the author of the magisterial The Soviet Tragedy, communism had a recognizable nature, one incompatible in any time or place with liberty and human dignity. As the great anti-totalitarian Russian writer and Nobel laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) noted time and again, violence and lies were the twin pillars, the soul-destroying foundations, of communist regimes in every time and clime, from Moscow to Beijing to Havana.
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