The New York Times is trying to retcon Solzhenitsyn as something that he was not: a defender of Western liberal democracy. He frequently criticized the West as being 'too free' and destined for self-destruction.

He also wrote specifically regarding the territories in Eastern Ukraine that are being contested today: "Huge areas that never belonged to historical Ukraine, such as Novorossiya, Crimea and the entire South-Eastern region, are forcibly squeezed into the current Ukrainian state and its policy of eagerly desired entry into NATO".

Solzhenitsyn was a Russian nationalist. He loved Russia, and he hated what Bolshevik communism did to it. All of his books should be required reading in American schools: The Gulag Archipelago, In The First Circle, Warning to the West, Candle in the Wind, Red Wheel and especially Two Hundred Years Together (only available in English in PDF format due to criticism of Bolsheviks: https://mailstar.net/Solzhenitsyn-200YT-Complete.pdf)

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