QUOTE:
"A great man has died: Aleksandr Ginzburg, the poet and dissident in the Soviet Union. Famously, he was asked at one of his trials where he was born: "The Gulag Archipelago," he said. He was asked his nationality: "Zek" (prisoner).
But what I didn't know, before reading his obit, was that he, a Russian Orthodox, "adopted his mother's Jewish family name as a young man to protest Stalin's anti-Semitic campaigns." That took my breath away.
Can one imagine oneself doing that? In that environment?
A great man."
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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