A voice for liberty from among the Soviet wasteland has ascended to the heavens.

The Associated Press reports that Solzhenitsyn’s work “helped erase lingering sympathy for the Soviet Union among many leftist intellectuals, especially in Europe” ? but would that they would absorb his observations (those who could, that is, who are not deliberate “iron-heads“) and realize that the monster that rampaged in the Soviet horror lurks in every statist’s dream: it is the consequence of handing any group of men power without check, the absolute corruption that Lord Acton observed and the American Founders sought to confound.

His faith having resounded from the depths of the Gulag, his present whereabouts are sure, so I will say simply:

Do svidaniya, Aleksandr Isayevich.