The Soviet Union was a brutal dictatorship. You see echoes of that in Russia today. One man was behind the Soviet collapse perhaps more than anyone else on Earth. His name was Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. His life reinforces a powerful biblical lesson.
Solzhenitsyn suffered as a prisoner in the Soviet gulags for eight years. His book The Gulag Archipelago exposed how these horrendous prison camps formed a network sprawled across the Soviet Union like an island chain from the 1920s to the 1950s. The ruling class used these camps to terrorize their own people.
In 1975, Solzhenitsyn wrote his autobiography, The Oak and the Calf. Translated into English in 1979, it describes his struggle to publish his writings under the stifling oppression of communism. But Solzhenitsyn was a man of faith. He believed God had a hand in his suffering and in his speaking out. I am certain God used him to expose that evil empire and teach us about human nature. One man wrecked the Soviet empire!
The Soviet Union was a brutal dictatorship. You see echoes of that in Russia today. One man was behind the Soviet collapse perhaps more than anyone else on Earth. His name was Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. His life reinforces a powerful biblical lesson.
Solzhenitsyn suffered as a prisoner in the Soviet gulags for eight years. His book The Gulag Archipelago exposed how these horrendous prison camps formed a network sprawled across the Soviet Union like an island chain from the 1920s to the 1950s. The ruling class used these camps to terrorize their own people.
In 1975, Solzhenitsyn wrote his autobiography, The Oak and the Calf. Translated into English in 1979, it describes his struggle to publish his writings under the stifling oppression of communism. But Solzhenitsyn was a man of faith. He believed God had a hand in his suffering and in his speaking out. I am certain God used him to expose that evil empire and teach us about human nature. One man wrecked the Soviet empire!
The Soviet Union was a brutal dictatorship. You see echoes of that in Russia today. One man was behind the Soviet collapse perhaps more than anyone else on Earth. His name was Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. His life reinforces a powerful biblical lesson.
Solzhenitsyn suffered as a prisoner in the Soviet gulags for eight years. His book The Gulag Archipelago exposed how these horrendous prison camps formed a network sprawled across the Soviet Union like an island chain from the 1920s to the 1950s. The ruling class used these camps to terrorize their own people.
In 1975, Solzhenitsyn wrote his autobiography, The Oak and the Calf. Translated into English in 1979, it describes his struggle to publish his writings under the stifling oppression of communism. But Solzhenitsyn was a man of faith. He believed God had a hand in his suffering and in his speaking out. I am certain God used him to expose that evil empire and teach us about human nature. One man wrecked the Soviet empire!
