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That book was quite literally written by the KGB [0], and his (ex-)wife had KGB ties [1]. From [1]: >In 1974, shortly before The Gulag Archipelago was due to
by juliangoldsmith 9y ago
That book was quite literally written by the KGB [0], and his (ex-)wife had KGB ties [1].
From [1]:
>In 1974, shortly before The Gulag Archipelago was due to appear, Natalya Reshetovskaya was recruited by the KGB to try and persuade Solzhenitsyn not to publish.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn#KGB_operations_against_Solzhenitsyn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn#KGB_ope...
[1]: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1431878/Natalya-Reshetovskaya.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1431878/Natalya-R...
- monocasa 9y agoThat's all according to a defector (which brings us back to the original conversation) and a member of MI5. The notes that form the basis of those claims are still classified. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Andrew_(historian) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Andrew_(historian)
- kingofhdds 9y agoI was born in USSR, and lived in it enough to be able to reassure you it was not possible to publish a book there in 1974 just because you decided it for yourself. Even authors of fairytales were forced to make ideological "corrections", not to mention anything even distantly political.