Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 89, passes away

Alexander Solzhenitsyn's bravery made an impression on me during my growing-up years. According to Fox News:

"Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning author whose books chronicled the horrors of the Soviet gulag system, has died of heart failure, his son said Monday. He was 89.
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"Solzhenitsyn's unflinching accounts of torment and survival in the Soviet Union's slave labor camps riveted his countrymen, whose secret history he exposed. They earned him 20 years of bitter exile, but international renown.

"And they inspired millions, perhaps, with the knowledge that one person's courage and integrity could, in the end, defeat the totalitarian machinery of an empire."

In the 1970s, he wrote the "Gulag Archipelago" trilogy that told of the horrors of Soviet labor camps, unimaginable atrocities for this American teenager. He inspired me in his strength to face and even survive those horrors.

Sometimes ... one person can make a difference.

Rest in peace.

H/T Reason and Revelation