November 13, 2003

OMNIPOTEMKIN:

Yes, yes, of course, we all know you cannot poke a stick through the walls of a concrete tower, but here's something to think about: what if the walls are only a painted backdrop? -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1975)
That's what Reagan and Solzhenitsyn recognized when no one else in the West did. Posted by Orrin Judd at November 13, 2003 8:17 AM
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But the left, from the 20s right up through the 1980s, loved those backdrops so much. Of course, they never cared about the corpses buried behind them. And the truly shameless ones, like Jimmy Carter, still want to go see painted backdrops rather than stark reality.

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