Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn died yesterday, at age 89, in his home in Moscow. The globally admired Nobel Laureate began his career as a high school teacher and was later an officer in the Red Army. After his arrest and eight-year imprisonment, Solzhenitsyn published The Gulag Archipelago, a memoir of the people and events he encountered in the Russian prison camp. As a result of the sharp critique of the Soviet regime contained in Gulag, Solzhenitsyn was expelled from Russia in 1974. Twenty years later, he returned to his native land.

Solzhenitsyn’s many acts of courage have earned the just praise of the world. His single-minded devotion to the truth incurred blame from the global elites; yet his insights inspired people across the globe to stand up against corrupt governments. He outlived by over a decade the behemoth Soviet empire that exhausted the resources of a nation to support the appearance of indestructibility.

He is eloquently remembered by all. Here are some of those reflections, carried in the NY Times, Spiegel, and National Review.

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