By Jason Jones & John Zmirak, The Stream - The most profound lesson Alexander Solzhenitsyn took away from his decade in the Gulag, and decades of courageous dissidence, was “Live not by lies.”.. He saw at the very root of the misery, poverty, cruelty, failure, and massive wastage of human lives and potential that was Soviet Communism something simple.. When people were being lied to by those with power, they didn’t speak up. Or fight back. ...