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Filuwaúrdjan
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« on: August 03, 2008, 05:41:02 PM »
89. Either a stroke or heart failure.
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« Reply #1 on: August 03, 2008, 05:45:46 PM »
'Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.'

R.I.P
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« Reply #2 on: August 03, 2008, 05:52:38 PM »
RIP.
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« Reply #3 on: August 03, 2008, 06:05:59 PM »
Damn. Sad Rest in Peace.
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« Reply #4 on: August 03, 2008, 06:08:15 PM »
I can't recall the last time I was this legitimately upset about the passing of a public figure.  RIP, peace you richly deserve.
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« Reply #5 on: August 03, 2008, 07:10:45 PM »
Sad, RIP.  And it was a leap year. 
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« Reply #6 on: August 04, 2008, 12:56:12 AM »
Rest in Peace
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« Reply #7 on: August 04, 2008, 12:56:26 AM »
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A true Freedom Fighter Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was. May him rest in peace.
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« Reply #8 on: August 04, 2008, 02:16:53 AM »
Quote from: Rocket Man on August 04, 2008, 12:56:26 AM
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A true Freedom Fighter Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was. May him rest in peace.
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« Reply #9 on: August 04, 2008, 03:40:25 AM »
« Edited: August 04, 2008, 04:24:52 AM by The Stranger »
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« Reply #10 on: August 04, 2008, 04:02:41 AM »
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« Reply #11 on: August 04, 2008, 09:28:43 AM »
True Freedom Fighter, in the best sense of the world.

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch is a brilliant novel. I'll have to read the rest of The Gulag Archipelago, but the first bit makes the evil of the Soviet regime totally clear.

Rest In Peace.
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« Reply #12 on: August 04, 2008, 11:08:06 AM »
Very decent and very brave man. Showed enough courage for all of us in his lifetime. Though we should probably hope for his sake that the latter decades of his life stay forgotten. They weren't exactly pretty.
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« Reply #13 on: August 04, 2008, 11:23:27 AM »
Quote from: Same Height As The President on August 04, 2008, 09:28:43 AM
True Freedom Fighter, in the best sense of the world.

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch is a brilliant novel. I'll have to read the rest of The Gulag Archipelago, but the first bit makes the evil of the Soviet regime totally clear.

Rest In Peace.

That was what the "leap year" reference was for.
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« Reply #14 on: August 04, 2008, 12:25:04 PM »
RIP.
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« Reply #15 on: August 04, 2008, 03:55:21 PM »
Quote from: Same Height As The President on August 04, 2008, 09:28:43 AM
True Freedom Fighter, in the best sense of the world.

Maybe... no... probably. But I don't think that he himself thought much of western concepts of freedom and so on.
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« Reply #16 on: August 04, 2008, 06:10:19 PM »
Quote from: Sibboleth on August 04, 2008, 03:55:21 PM
Quote from: Same Height As The President on August 04, 2008, 09:28:43 AM
True Freedom Fighter, in the best sense of the world.

Maybe... no... probably. But I don't think that he himself thought much of western concepts of freedom and so on.

Correct. He was quite a supporter of monarchism, conservatism, and Christian-right kind of stuff in his later life. He supported Putin, too, IIRC.
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« Reply #17 on: August 04, 2008, 06:39:51 PM »
Conservatism, within a western context anyway, is the wrong word. Anti-liberal might be closer, but still misses something.
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