Solzhenitsyn's works are assigned in high school in Russia today by the official federal curriculum, fitting well with the post-1990s mood in Russia and his vision of Russian modernity, while in the West he can be read alongside Holocaust literature as a reminder of totalitarianism's dangers and what we value morally.
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“his works are assigned in high school in Russia today by the official federal curriculum in Russia and in addition he can be read in the West the same way that we read Holocaust literature we of course hope that something like that never happens again what happened to the Jews under Nazi rule but yet we still read the Holocaust it still speaks to us”
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