Coming full circle, not that Russia is a

Another great article Ben. Not to discredit Solzhenitsyn I have wondered about Stalins camps that he exposed? Not to defend Stalin either. While in a differant place and time. But as evidence has been presented, how accurate or real in respect to Serbia, Venezuala as ex. Mass graves or a mass grave can be used to paint a larger false one? In this I find it questioning, that given the numbers of Stalins crimes that not more were able to escape and confirm. I have herd that during the cold war anything could be written about the USSR and communism and historians did little to use traditional critic of that what was written, so writters were given free reign from publishers. After the USSR fall, a few with some noteriety have tried to expose the misconceptions the west portrayed of the east, but it is hard to tear down 50yrs well entrenched misconceptions. With all the covert and propaganda methods that were used even today on the war on terror, difficult for even those serching and questioning these areas to come up with a defining moment. In light of what I have just posted, I keep this on Dostoyevsky and Solzhenitsyn, probably posted them before. Both of these so pertinent to todays world. Democracy, Freedom, & Responsibility 
On June 8,. 1978, heroic anti-Soviet intellectual Alexander Solzhenitsyn gave an address at Harvard that bears consideration on numerous grounds. The two paragraphs below offer some remarks on Western freedom, addressing, first, the media, and, second, the population as a whole: 
 
\"The press too, of course, enjoys the widest freedom. (I shall be using the word press to include all media). But what sort of use does it make of this freedom? Here again, the main concern is not to infringe the letter of the law. There is no moral responsibility for deformation or disproportion. What sort of responsibility does a journalist have to his readers, or to history? If they have misled public opinion or the government by inaccurate information or wrong conclusions, do we know of any cases of public recognition and rectification of such mistakes by the same journalist or the same newspaper? No, it does not happen, because it would damage sales. A nation may be the victim of such a mistake, but the journalist always gets away with it. One may safely assume that he will start writing the opposite with renewed self-assurance. \" \"Without any censorship, in the West fashionable trends of thought and ideas are carefully separated from those which are not fashionable; nothing is forbidden, but what is not fashionable will hardly ever find its way into periodicals or books or be heard in colleges. Legally your researchers are free, but they are conditioned by the fashion of the day. There is no open violence such as in the East; however, a selection dictated by fashion and the need to match mass standards frequently prevent independent-minded people from giving their contribution to public life. There is a dangerous tendency to form a herd, shutting off successful development.\" One of Dostoyevsky\'s characters [Brothers Karamazov, Signet Classic, p. 292], although developing the rather different concept of having the courage to admit one\'s personal errors, makes a remark highly relevant to Solzhenitsyn\'s warning: \" \'You are, I see, a man of great strength of character….You have dared to serve the truth, even when by doing so you risked incurring the contempt of all.\' \" In our so called free world of democracy that is thought controlled trough corporate media, it is more important for us to speak out in every way we can to keep other truths alive. Bear witness as some say. We see evidence of this in another force fed election here in the US, where those who really should be up front and offer real change and politic are pushed to the back, and we forced to live with the illusion we must pick from the two evil parties THEY lay before us. Obama a wolf in sheeps clothing, not that McSame dresses any better, is the ultimate in US decietful history, both will endorse the further assault on existing and new innocent peoples in the M.E. and possibly other. In Georgia we hear it said, \" once again the agressor is made out to be the victim. Have we come full circle here.

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