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1SG Steven Imerman
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His works opened the eyes of a lot of red sympathizers and fellow travelers in the West. Suddenly it was not so cool to be a Marxist. Unfortunately, his effect has not seemed to last.
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SSG Samuel Kermon
SSG Samuel Kermon
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Truly.
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
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Exactly, it seems that people forget that the Russians, which many politicians want to cuddle up with today, are the Marxists of the Soviet Union.
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
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His works were a hard read, in more ways than one.
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1LT Voyle Smith
1LT Voyle Smith
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I’m with you on that. Russian writers are a gloomy bunch and hard to read on a good day. But Solzhenitsyn was too deep into the gloom for me. I didn’t get very far into The Gulag when I chucked the book into the “read later” pile. That was about 30 years ago. Still not ready for it.
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Cpl Archie H.
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He raised some of his children in Vermont. People who lived near him told me no one bothered him, protecting his privacy. One son is a classical musician, and sometime symphony conductor. I gather he was a strict in interpretation a Russian culture as an active Orthodox Christian. The kind of Russian I like and respect. Although I am not An Orthodox Christian, I am an eastern Christian, since we shared much of the same religious culture, and spirituality.
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