[lbo-talk] Soros: Kremlin-Gazprom "devious and arbitrary"

[Charles Brown]

Chris Doss 
Why would a Russian nationalist, which Solzhenitsyn
is, be in favor of breaking up the USSR? He was
anti-CPSU, not anti-Soviet Union. (Come to think of
it, the USSR was broken up in large part BY the CPSU.)
None of the big-name dissidents were in favor of
breaking up the USSR. Sakharov in particular struggled
hard to preserve the Union.

^^^^^
CB: Thanks. I didn't know that.

To play devil's advocate, why doesn't he admit that the Communists did a
good thing in making the USSR, making it a powerful modern nation , etc ?
Surely he knows Czars had  the "Prisonhouse of Nations", so he should be
able to forgive the Commies the GULAG , since they did so much for the
nation. The Communists made Russia more powerful than the Czars did. Fess
up, Solzenhenitsyn. Communists made Russia a world power, unlike feudalists
:>)

So, what did Solzenhenitsyn want to do , turn the non-Russian Soviet nations
back into colonies ? He's not a Uzbekistanian nationalist , is he ?

Sakharov wasn't a chauvinist nationalist like Sol. , was he ?

 

Gorbachev didn't support breaking up the USSR , did he ? Of course,
Gorbachev supported "more democracy, more socialism", and I understand
Solzenhenitsyn is not pro-democracy.