Why was the Soviet Dictatorship crushed?
(The role of Solzhenitsin in that)


The Soviet dictatorship was founded on Marx's idea, but operated as each dictator wanted to understand it. Another viewpoint was forbidden. The major weapon of dictatorship was full censorship inside the country. The dictators required absolute obedience of everyone. All deviant people were sent to prison. All printing houses in the Soviet Union were government property and they were controlled. Copy machines were only at the plants. The documents were copied with permission of the secret division of the plant. The foreign broadcasts in Russian language were blocked. The Soviet people were many times cleansed (1920's, 1937 1940's, and 1950's.) The numbers of informers (snitchers) to KGB, I think, were in the millions. (Even now the list of snitchers has not been published.) A new revolution couldn't happen in the Soviet Union, because some freedom is necessary for that.

The dictatorship destroyed scientific and technological revolution. The tape recorder and computer were becoming the norm in the plants. Although the tape with critical songs by Visotscy, Galich and other were illegal, they were widespread.

The litigation about copyrights became very difficult, and the Soviet Union had to obey to Helsinki agreement. It wanted to legalize its control of Eastern Europe after Word War II but the West agreed with that only under the condition that human rights would be respected. That was the beginning of spring. The censorship weakened. All secrets became open. The time was ready to abandon dictatorship. The work of Atmatov, Galich, Visotsky, Pasternak, Solzhenitsin helped them.

The role of Solzhenitsin we don't have to exaggerate. His works weren't printed in the Soviet Union. They were printed outside the border and known only there.

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