“This was the sad paradox of Solzhenitsyn’s final years. The man who once wrote to Soviet leaders demanding the abolition of censorship never protested the revival of censorship. The man who used his Nobel Prize to start a fund for political prisoners kept quiet about the new political prisoners of Putin’s regime. The man who coined the slogan ‘To live not by the lie’ had a cozy relationship with a government that rigged elections and filled the media with lies big and small. The man who had once asked the West for ‘more interference in our internal affairs’ joined the chorus of anti-Western agitprop.” (08/07/08)