–Image: Happier times when Solzhenitsyn could not put a foot wrong. Then he did, and he wandered into the ranks of The Undead.

David Irving comments: I HAVE always had a warm spot for Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and not only because he wrote to me, out of the blue from his exile in Vermont, a fine handwritten letter praising my earliest book The Destruction of Dresden, USA, many years ago.

He was a brave man, and it is interesting to see that despite his immense prestige as a Nobel Prize winner, the traditional enemies of the truth have had no hesitation in targeting him for his revelations about their prominent role in the Soviet terror system.

It is almost as though they still hanker after those good ole times.

His condemnation of the Soviet terror system and the Jewish role therein was nothing new of course: as early as 1920 Winston Churchill wrote an article in a London illustrated magazine, before he was bought off by that big cheque from Sir Robert Waley-Cohen in July 1936, excoriating them for this particularly ugly facet of the their past.

But that was years before the Holocaust and its associated media industry brought down a fire-safety curtain blotting out all such critical references to their more controversial achievements.

Solzhenitsyn’s courage deserves even greater posthumous recognition in consequence.

Sharansky lauds Solzhenitsyn’s influence on Soviet Jewry movement

By Ben Harris

NEW YORK (JTA) — Amid the haystack of laudatory prose evoked this week by the death of one of the titans of Russian literature was this far less flattering needle: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was dogged, particularly in his later years, by charges he harbored deep anti-Semitic prejudice.

[Nathan] Sharansky, who along with Solzhenitsyn is among the most famous inmates and chroniclers of the Soviet labor camp system, says those charges should be understood in context.

“I don’t think that he has any special prejudice,” Sharansky told JTA. “He had a big interest in defending the Russian nationalism, the Russian pride. Also he wanted to unmask the evils of the empire. While studying it, he discovered — it was very easy to discover — that among the architects of this gulag system, meaning this system of imprisonment, were many, many Jews. (…Full Article)