Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Grandfather

 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Grandfather

Aleksandr Solzhenytsin described in the Gulag Archipelago that his grandfather was persecuted by the socialists for being a hard worker and industrious. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's grandfather owned a forge where he was a blacksmith. Solzhentsyn's grandfather worked from dawn to dusk possibly outworking slothful socialists and created sturdy axes that he then sold to individuals. 

The axes made were sturdy and actually of amaizing quality. Because he was industrious, socialists artificially supressed the prices of axes and caused the price to decrease. This was with the intention to prevent citizens in the Soviet Union from improving their circumstances based on hard work and dedication. The Soviets hated competition and created a monopoly based on artificially manipulating the prices of items.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn described that socialism was essentially cancer and that it does not help anyone. It was noted that because Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's grandfather was not a socialist, snitch, nor busybody, he was envied by socialists. When Solzhenitsyn's grandfather refused to decrease the work production and kept working hard, the socialists artificially valued the forge at a higher price than its actual value and imposed subsequent artificial taxes that could not be paid. 

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn described that he was probably hated by socialists because of his grandfather and also for his courageous feats as a soldier in the Second World War having fought the nazi socialists with bravery. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn took artillery fire from nazi socialists and yet kept fighting. The soviet socialists probably envied his tenacity and fearlessness. He was able to keep fighting by writing the Gulag Archipelago that helped collapse the Soviet Union in the 1990s along with Ronald Reagen and Pope John Paul II. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn definitely was a Christian.