alexander solzhenitsyn (NP)

[jd]

http://www.archive.org/details/ThePowerOfNightmares

What do you all think of Alexander Solzhenitsyn?  I have only read a
few pages of The Gulag Archipelago...  and then I was watching the
documentary from the above link which mainly deals with showing the
growth of neo-conservatism compared with extremist islamic violence
that we're faced with currently (I'm not saying it hasn't been around
for awhile, for the record).  But in the first segment they show a
clip of Solzhenitsyn that seems to portray him as someone somewhat
mis-led and with incorrect ideals.  Then again, they seem to portray
Nixon and Kissinger as honorable men with honorable ideals.  I'm no
Nixon expert, I could be wrong, but everything that crosses my radar
seems to indicate the exact opposite, so, as with anything, grain of
salt.

Interested to hear what you have to say about Solzhenitsyn, however.
I've heard he's made many exagerations in Gulag Archipelago but many
seem to think his heart, at least, was in the right place.  What do
you think?

I think this somewhat falls into the Pynchonian world view, apologies
if it's not appropriate for the list.