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10 Russian Historical Events The Sochi Games Totally Ignored

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Russian history in the 20th century is bookended by the disastrous rise and eventual collapse of Soviet communism. And no one did a better chronicling communism’s failures than master story-teller Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

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So let’s suppose the Nobel Laureate had lived long enough into this century to contribute commentary to the opening ceremony of the Sochi Winter Games. The hosts provided a highly romanticized version of modern Russian history. Solzhenitsyn would have insisted that the following events be included:

Every one of these communist crimes was omitted from Sochi’s shameful airbrushing of the seven decades of Soviet rule from 1917-1991. Amid all the celebrating and the gold medals, the Russian people would do well to remember that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

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