200 Years Together by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn



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200 Years Together

The carts with bloody cargo 
Squeak by Nikitsky Gate. 
 
At  his  best,  he  calls  society  to  moral  cleansing,  to  resistance  (Gold-Digger’s  Waltz,  I 
Choose Liberty, Ballad of the Clean Hands, Our Fingers Are Blotted From The Questionnaires, 
Every Day Silent Trumpets Glorify Thoughtful Vacuity.) Sometimes he sang the hard truth about 
the past. 
 
In vain had our infantry perished in 1943, to no avail. 
 
sometimes Red myths, singing about poor persecuted communists  
 
There was a time — 
Almost a third of the inmates came from the Central Committee
There was a time when for the red color 
They added ten years [to the sentence.]. 
 
Once he touched dekulakization: 
 


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Disenfranchised ones were summoned in first. 
 
Yet his main blow was against the current establishment: 
 
There are fences in the country; behind fences live the leaders.  
 
He  was  justly  harsh  there;  however,  he  oversimplified  the  charge  by  attacking  their 
privileged  way  of  life  only:  here  they  eat,  drink,  rejoice.  The  songs  were  embittering,  but  in  a 
narrow-minded way, almost like the primitive Red Proletarian propaganda of the past. Yet when 
he was switching his focus from the leaders to “the people,” his characters were almost entirely 
boobies, fastidious men, rabble and rascals — a very limited selection.  
He had found a precise point of perspective for himself, perfectly in accord with the spirit 
of the time: he impersonalized himself with all those people who were suffering, persecuted and 
killed. 
 
I was a GI [Gulag inmate, which he was not] 
And as a GI I’ll die, 
We, GIs, are dying in battle. 
 
Yet with his many songs narrated from the first person of a former camp inmate, he made 
a strong impression that he was an inmate himself. 
 
And that other inmate was me myself. 
I froze like a horseshoe in a sleigh trail 
Into ice that I picked with a hammer pick. 
After all, wasn’t it me who spent  
Twenty years in those camps. 
As the numbers [personal inmate number tattooed on the arm] 
We died, we died. 
Rrom the camp we were sent right to the front! 
 
Many believed that he was a former camp inmate and they have tried to find from Galich 
when and where he had been in camps.  
So how did  he address  his  past,  his  longstanding participation  in the stupefying official 
Soviet  lies?  That’s  what  had  struck  me  the  most:  singing  with  such  accusatory  pathos,  he  had 
never  expressed  a  single  word  of  his  personal  remorse,  not  a  word  of  personal  repentance. 
Nowhere!  Didn’t  he  realize  that  when  he  sang:  “Oh  Party’s  Iliad!  What  a  giftwrapped 
groveling!”, he sang about  himself? And when he crooned:  “If  you sell the unction” as though 
referring to somebody else, did it occur to him that he himself was selling unction for half of his 
life. Why on earth would he not renounce his pro-official plays and films? No! “We did not sing 
glory to executioners!” Yet, as the matter of fact, he did. Perhaps he did realize it or he gradually 
came to the realization, because later, no longer in Russia, he said: “I was a well-off screenwriter 
and  playwright  and  a  well-off  Soviet  flunky.  And  I  have  realized  that  I  could  no  longer  go  on 
like that. Finally, I have to speak loudly, speak the truth.”  
But then, in the Sixties, he intrepidly turned the pathos of civil rage, for instance, to the 
refutation of the Gospel commandments (do not judge, lest ye be judged):  


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