Jamming With Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

style="overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;">There are two words for truth in Russian: pravda – as in the title of the Soviet newspaper – implies a contingent truth, derived from personal experience and reasoning; istina, however, suggests a more profound, eternal verity, unswayed by expediency and unchanged by circumstance.