Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Live not by lies

Tuesday marked the death of one of the world's most courageous freedom fighters: Alexander Solzhenitsyn, at the age of 89. He had survived the Stalinist death camps and documented his experiences in The Gulag Archipelago, a very long (and by most accounts difficult to read) document.

On February 12, 1974, he was exiled from Russia by Leonid Brezhnev. Just before he left, he wrote a piece that inspired and encouraged me, which I would like to share with you, "Live Not by Lies," published in the Washington Post soon after, and republished there yesterday. I strongly encourage you to read it.

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