200 Years Together - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, as read by Pete Quinones and commented on by Dr. Matthew Raphael Johnson
https://www.youtube.com/live/Ocgm0cWMyvU


No sweat bud, I went to embed it for you yesterday, and it tells me 'this video is unavailable' when I do, when that video is very clearly not unavailable.HansHill wrote: ↑Wed Jan 14, 2026 9:44 pm Apologies Herr Stubble, i'm a boomer and don't know how to embed, so presume it's my fault. As long as the link itself works you should be golden. In fact I recommend going direct with an RSS link and bypass youtube entirely
FWIW as of time of writing this series is up to episode 101.
Holy Crap Pilgrimofdark,pilgrimofdark wrote: ↑Wed Jan 14, 2026 11:11 pmYears ago, I collated all of the text and re-typeset it with footnotes because I wanted to read the book. Designed some covers and sent the PDF files to a print shop and got paperback books.Spoiler
Any guesses on whether the "official" translation will actually appear anytime soon? The Solzhenitsyn Center missed their 2025 release date.
The Samisdat edition I found online is somewhat incomplete (~200,000 words), and the version on WikiSpooks is also missing a bit from the Samisdat edition. Together, I think they're as complete an English version as I could find (~320,000 words). I'm not sure what the Omnia Veritas version uses.
There are minor mistakes all over, which you'd expect from a bootleg translation, but it's an extremely readable book. I've read books from major publishers that have more grammatical mistakes than these.
I wonder how an AI translation would compare.
Spoiler
Solzhenitsyn isn't a Holocaust doubter of any sort in the book. He denies the first holocaust (Kishinev 1903) more than the third one (Nazis). The book is valuable for many other reasons, though.Spoiler
