The day he was arrested by the KGB, Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn released Live Not by Lies. It is a short exhortation to his fellow dissidents to continue their struggle by resisting the ideological state at its most vulnerable point – lies. I read it now as equally relevant to our own increasingly ideological Western societies.
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