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"Her books are neither published nor discussed in the media there...."
In 1995, Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus, told Russian NTV television : “The history of Germany is a copy of the history of Belarus. Germany was raised from the ruins thanks to firm authority, and not everything connected with that well-known figure, Adolf Hitler, was bad. German order evolved over the centuries and under Hitler it attained its peak.”...
This is the nemesis of the new Nobel Prize-winner in Literature....
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Well, there was Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
Of course Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia and died there. I remember when he moved to Vermont and made the “The Exhausted West,” speech at Harvard.
“The defense of individual rights has reached such extremes as to make society as a whole defenseless against certain individuals,”
“It is time, in the West, to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.”
This prophetic speech was not well received. Who knows, maybe there were a lot of idiots like Bernie Sanders were roaming around Vermont and that made him reconsider living there.
"Germany was raised from the ruins thanks to firm authority, and not everything connected with that well-known figure, Adolf Hitler, was bad. "
And Obama's primary distraction right now is executive orders on gun-control.
Fighting antisemitism? Wow, talk about brave. The Nobel Prize always had politics in it, but now its like 90% politics and 10% merit. Of course, they gave it to Pinter, Winston Churchill, and Pearl Buck - so maybe its always been this bad.
You just can't shut up, can you?
She seems like a worthy winner, far more so than many other recent winners. Still, there's nothing I've read about her work that makes me eager to read her. The literature prize has always seemed more preoccupied with virtue than with merit.
That article contains a word I've never seen before: "edulcorations".
She certainly is more worth of the prize than Obama.
I don't understand why the Jews of Eastern Europe just don't leave. They are despised by the peoples of those countries and other than dying there is nothing they can do to be truly accepted by the peoples of those countries. In those countries when it comes to Jews, it really is true what Faulkner said about the past: "The past isn't dead. In fact, its not even past."
@Leslie That was my thought too -- never saw that word before.
edulcoration: it means "sweetening". The dictator has spin doctors to sweeten up his drivel.
Fantastic word, latin roots and everything.
Cubanbob, look at rcocean and West Texas Intermediate Crude. Jews can get non-acceptance right here. How do you think so many Jews came to e.g. Poland? Kicked out of Western Europe. The important thing is not to give up our books.
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