Skvortsov

 Skvortsov

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn described how in the Soviet Union individuals did not have the freedom to have preferences over writers. Skvortsov was an individual that was taken to gulag for writing positively about a non-socialist Russian writer. Skvortsov was falsely accused and taken to gulag for fifteen years for speaking good things about a Russian writer and constructively criticizing Mayakovsky who was a socialist. This describes that there was no autonomy in Soviet Russia. We learn that individuals could not speak nor write about having preferences for Russian writers. We learn that Dostoevsky was hated by Soviet socialists. 

We learn that Soviet Union citizens did not have basic rights to speak truth nor have preferences over Russian writers. This describes that socialism and communism does not like that individuals have freedom and autonomy. We learn that individuals could not constructively critique socialist writers like Mayakovsky because socialists would get offended. The offended sycophants would then write denunciations against anyone who dared speak truth or have preferences over writers.

Another individual was taken to gulag for saying that Gorky (a socialist leader) was a bad writer and that the working class in Soviet Russia did not live well. We learn that this was enough to write a denunciation with false accusations and send the individual to gulag. We are able to understand the importance of freedom of speech and being able to speak truth. We learn that if the socialist Bolsheviks were offended, they would write denunciations and send individuals who did no wrong to gulag. This describes that socialism does not allow for freedom and autonomy. 

We learn from the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s that the truth is able to persevere amidst opposition. We learn that Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn described in the stories of the Gulag Archipelago multiple individuals who went through false accusations and gulag for the envy of socialism and communism in the Soviet Union. We learn that the Gulag Archipelago allows us to know that the truth is important and conquers the temporary lies. After publishing the Gulag Archipelago, the Soviet Union weakened and eventually collapsed in the 1990s. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn would be able to write in the United States during exile and describe the importance of Christian zeal and the incongruencies of Soviet socialism.