The Voice of a Prophet: Solzhenitsyn on the Ukraine Crisis – The Imaginative Conservative

By Joseph Pearce

Though Solzhenitsyn feared the consequences of an independent Ukraine, he respected the right of the Ukrainian people to secede, a right which they duly exercised as the former Soviet Union unraveled.

Reiterating his subsidiarist principles he insisted once again that “only the local population can decide the fate of their locality, of their region.”

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