Impossible to condemn Solzhenitsyn for being confused without knowing his history. He was born deep in Russia, at Kislovodsk, Stavropol Krai. in the North Caucasus region. His family farm was taken by Russia. He was an officer in the Red Army. He was sent to Siberia. He won a Nobel Peace Prize for his writings and his ideas. He lived in America.
Solzhenitsyn criticized almost everything. He didn’t like Russia. He didn’t like America because he thought we were descending into a wretched existence. He was not a happy man.
He never seemed to get this Liberty stuff, most likely because from when he was an infant he lived in a treacherous, murderous culture and he was a military office. Those experiences affected him. His government poisoned him with Ricin but he survived.
Wikipedia has a biography about him but it doesn’t get into his philosophy or his values or value system but if he didn’t prefer America to the USSR or Russia, he was confused. .
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