Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes
Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr. Interview by Paul Klebnikov. Forbes, 9 May 1994, p. 118.
The discussion was about Ronald Reagan who had always castigated government, but when he became Governor of California and President of the Untied States, he set all records for expanding the size of government and government spending until George W. Bush expanded the government and created a budget deficit even larger than Reagan’s. Bush also constantly denounced big government and even government of any size.
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist, philosopher, historian, short story writer and political prisoner. One of the most famous Soviet dissidents, Solzhenitsyn was an outspoken critic of communism and helped to raise global awareness of human rights abuses, the Gulag concentration camp system and political repression in the Soviet Union.
