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LEST WE FORGET- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was Born in December, 1918

President Lincoln thought that the 1852  novel, UNCLE TOM’S CABIN, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, was the literary trigger to the American Civil War; the war which ended slavery in America. That being the case, Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn’s 1962 novel about prison life in Stalin’s concentration camps, the gulags, ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH was the literary trigger to the fall of the Soviet Union. Ronald Reagan, St. John Paul II, and all who fought the twilight war, which brought down the Soviet Union, stood on the shoulders of Solzhenitsyn’s exposé and denunciation of the Soviet Union. (Certain Liberal intellectuals engage in revisionism, and claim that Mikhail Gorbachev was more instrumental than Ronald Reagan in bringing down the Soviet Union; they say that because they still cannot believe that a has-been actor, from a small college, whose last great role was playing second fiddle to a chimp in BEDTIME    FOR BONZO, could bring down a system created by the giants of the