We Need Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Now More Than Ever

“We must first understand this socialist culture of the woke who seek to control what we think, what we say, and how we live. We must believe—like Solzhenitsyn did—that the truth can defeat them.”

Doris Lessing, the British novelist, playwright, and the winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, said of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s masterwork The Gulag Archipelago, “… it helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated.”

The world breathed a sigh of relief when the Soviet Union finally collapsed in 1991. The deadly Marxist government there had starved, disappeared, and murdered millions of people around the world. The Soviet Union had invaded, subverted, and dominated weaker countries for decades. Two years before the collapse, the Soviet’s wall in East Germany had come down, flooding the tide of freedom across Russia and starting the process of sinking the Soviet Empire. But for the sixteen years prior to those events, Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag manuscript had been circulating underground, ragged mimeographed copies passing secretly from hand to hand, rotting the foundation of everything the Soviets had built.

Today, from the remaining scraps of its rotted foundation, Marxism has risen again, adopted by new revolutionaries bent on dominating Europe and the United States. I submit here that the words of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn may be the best weapons we have against this nascent empire of human destruction, the Woke Empire. The current pandemic of deadly woke ideologues are one election away from subverting the United States and from there, the world. They currently lack only a few major levers of power to re-establish an official state in America.

Our largely submissive media would have us believe that the woke are really just an annoying gaggle of screeching feminists and pajama boys; however, I believe Solzhenitsyn would immediately recognize the woke as the stifling and corrupt inheritors of Soviet Marxism and, in turn, believe that this resurrected golem of global domination again stalks the earth.