Re: "Ex-Soviet dissident warns of U.S. plot against Russia"

Right on, Alex!

yared22311@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Ex-Soviet dissident warns of U.S. plot against Russia
By Adrian Blomfield
LONDON DAILY TELEGRAPH
Published April 29, 2006

MOSCOW -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn has accused the United States of
launching a military campaign to encircle Russia and turn it into a
NATO chattel.
The Nobel laureate also delivered his strongest endorsement yet of
President Vladimir Putin, surprising Kremlin critics who argue that the
country is growing more authoritarian.
Replying in writing to questions from the weekly Moscow News, the
87-year-old former Soviet dissident said military action by the United
States in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan underlined the menace to
Russian sovereignty.
"Though it is clear that present-day Russia poses no threat to it
whatsoever, NATO is methodically and persistently expanding its
military apparatus in the east of Europe and is implementing an
encirclement of Russia from the south," he wrote.
He also attacked Western support for recent revolutions that
toppled Moscow-backed regimes in Ukraine and Georgia.
"All this leaves no doubt that they are preparing a complete
encirclement of Russia, which will be followed by the deprivation of
her sovereignty," he said.
Russia, he suggested, was all that stood between NATO and the
"downfall of Christian civilization."
He praised the efforts of Mr. Putin "to salvage the state from
failure."
Arrested in 1945, Mr. Solzhenitsyn was a prisoner in both an elite
laboratory for captive scientists and a labor camp in Central Asia.
After his release, his "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" was
the first work to draw attention to the camps in the Soviet Union. His
longer "The Gulag Archipelago" provoked a furor abroad, prompting his
deportation to the West in 1974. Mr. Solzhenitsyn returned to
post-Soviet Russia in 1994.

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