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| FBI Dossier: How Solzhenitsyn Became a Weapon in the Cold War |
| 2024-10-21 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rohzin is in italics. Text taken from the Telegram channel of https://t.me/darpaandcia [ColonelCassad] We are publishing declassified FBI documents that shed light on the role of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in the confrontation between the USSR and the West. These materials show how American intelligence agencies monitored the writer’s life after his expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1974. After Solzhenitsyn left the Soviet Union, he became an instrument in the fight against communism in the West. His works, such as The Gulag Archipelago and Cancer Ward, were actively published in the West, and the royalties from these books reached an impressive sum of six million dollars. These funds came thanks to Western publishers who saw his work as a powerful tool for undermining Soviet ideology. The FBI received information about Solzhenitsyn’s movements through confidential sources. For example, the agency monitored his plans to visit Vermont in 1976 to participate in a public speech. The FBI was interested in ensuring Solzhenitsyn's safety, fearing the possible risks associated with his popularity and anti-Soviet statements. Although there were no direct threats to his life, Solzhenitsyn was always under close scrutiny, which underlines his political importance in the Cold War. The FBI documents also allow us to conclude that the West used Solzhenitsyn as a powerful ideological weapon against the Soviet Union. His speeches, such as the one in Taiwan in 1982, where he emphasized the importance of resisting communism and cited Taiwan as an example of a successful fight against totalitarianism, were widely used to strengthen anti-Soviet sentiments in the international community. Declassified FBI documents show that Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was more than just a writer and critic of the Soviet regime. He became an important figure in the global political game, where the West used him to undermine the USSR. Which has been said for many years.Actually, Bushin laid all this out back in the ‘90s. |
| Posted by:badanov |