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To: frankw1900 who wrote (678234)	2/27/2019 8:46:25 AM
From: skinowski	2 Recommendations Recommended By Hank Scorpio Thehammer Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793866

I'm not trying to undermine Solzhenitsyn. His Gulag Archipelago is a good book and a great document - informative and effective - just as you point out. I read many of his books, including novels, many of them while they were still illegal, published by "Samizdat". Yes, he revealed the horrors behind socialist despotism. But the idea survived. The same Euros promptly invented socialism with a human face. Kinder, gentler socialism. This made it once again acceptable. Problem is, once it's acceptable, it will win hearts and minds all over again - AND in time will become radicalized... all over again. Soviet version of socialism didn't start with Stalinism -- it was the fruit of many pre-revolutionary decades of broad and very liberal Marxist movements. Rand was far better at showing evil as the very essence of socialism. It's not a "good idea" that had the misfortune of falling into "bad hands". The very idea IS evil... always waiting to actualise its true nature. Could be that Rand wasn't as accepted in Europe because she was very much an American writer and philosopher. America wasn't very popular in Europe in the 70's... or before or after.