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Solzhenitsyn’s dream was similar to King’s – author’s friend

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Viktor Linnik – editor-in-chief of Moscow’s Slovo newspaper and long-time friend of the Solzhenitsyn family – found striking similarities between Solzhenitsyn’s views and those of Martin Luther King.

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Marzipan6 August 06, 2009, 11:02

Solzhenitsyn's dream may have been similar to King's. But Soviet Russia was nothing at all like segregationalist USA.

davidperi August 03, 2009, 17:33

That´s what I read how Sozhenitsyn criticized both the Soviet and Western system. I heard that Solzhenitsyn had very strong moral ideals and Orthodox in his beliefs. Coming from the West it surprised me how he criticized the moral decline of America because I never paid attention. But now, I agree with him.

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