The Witness Who Could Not Stay Silent
On a February morning in 1974, Soviet authorities dragged Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn from his Moscow apartment and deported him from Russia. His crime was simple: he...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Acts 2:14a, 22-32.
On a February morning in 1974, Soviet authorities dragged Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn from his Moscow apartment and deported him from Russia. His crime was simple: he had told the truth about what he had seen. After eight years in the Soviet gulag, Solzhenitsyn carried the weight of eyewitness testimony that no government could suppress. When friends urged caution, he replied that silence was no longer possible.…
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