No American author deals with questions of such intense morality - and it's not that Americans do not face intense moral questions. Is it because most all Americans completely fail when faced with moral tests?
@Easton You are mistaken my friend. I live in the US now, but was raised under Communists and lived there during Yeltsin administration. Solzhenitsyn himself was deeply disappointed with the moral and intellectual state of Russia, free Russia, when he returned from exile. Solzhenitsyn and a few others remain extreme outliers.
The book is so intense that it is almost an ordeal to read it. This production is fantastic while still getting the depth of th emessage across.
The speech at 41 minutes and through the credits. who is that?
The passage from 40.46 onward is a clip of Stalin himself, speaking on 11 December 1937.
Why do the guards make those noises when theyre walking?
No American author deals with questions of such intense morality - and it's not that Americans do not face intense moral questions. Is it because most all Americans completely fail when faced with moral tests?
I think your point applies to most Western countries...including mine of Canada....
@Easton You are mistaken my friend. I live in the US now, but was raised under Communists and lived there during Yeltsin administration. Solzhenitsyn himself was deeply disappointed with the moral and intellectual state of Russia, free Russia, when he returned from exile. Solzhenitsyn and a few others remain extreme outliers.
"No American author deals with questions of such intense morality ..."
That is not true.
Read Ayn Rand.