It took me an entire summer to read his thinnest book, Cancer Ward, but it was worth every minute.]]>
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Also, China didn't seem to learn much from Tiananmen Square, they're still pretty much the same oppressive a*****es they were back then.]]>
I admire his courage and resolve but practically speak, a stone, versus a tank, really?I'm sure it was a symbolic gesture, and not one taken lightly by Stalin's henchmen. Both he and the gent in Tienamen Square paid dearly for their boldness, as did Solzhenitsyn. They put ideas into action, and ideas have consequences.]]>
I admire his courage and resolve but practically speak, a stone, versus a tank, really?This did more far more damage to China than would have an RPG aimed at that lead tank.
I admire his courage and resolve but practically speak, a stone, versus a tank, really?Haha, I think it was more of a symbol than anything else. And I meant it happened on two different occasions. He was arrested and exiled for throwing stones at Stalin's tanks. Then when they let him back in years later, he threw rocks at Stalin's tanks again, and was arrested and exiled a second time.
The man was exiled to f**king Siberia twice.]]>
I admire his courage and resolve but practically speaking, a stone, versus a tank, really?]]>