Another great one gone

The Washington Post has the obituary: "Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who died Sunday at age 89, always told the truth even when his audience wanted congratulatory lies."

Rico says the man was, understandably, obsessed with the Gulag, having spent the best years of his life there, courtesy of some narrow-minded Communists. But he wrote powerful (if long, even in English) works on the reality of life in Soviet Russia. Long may he be remembered, in this short-memoried age...