“A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
In 1974, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn published his short manifesto to the Russian people, “Live Not By Lies,” just before he was arrested and exiled to the West. In his paper, he argued that “the simplest, the most accessible key to our liberation: a…
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