SOVIET UNION: Homage to Solzhenitsyn

"Is it possible that we are again on our way toward the rule of violence and tyranny? Is art, after sparkling before us in a few—and certainly not in all —colors of the rainbow, destined again to be painted in just one color?"

The questions are asked by Russian Geneticist Zhores Medvedev, a leading Soviet intellectual and close friend of the man who for years has had to bear the weight of official Soviet censorship —Alexander Solzhenitsyn. That such questions are being put forward by a Soviet citizen who has been given official...

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