[locacorten]

Yes, it's a hypothesis. A hypothesis that has been invalidated by data again, and again, and again, and again.

[squozzer]

Then what exactly made Mr. Solzhenitsyn's work so powerful? Was he a capitalist stooge?

[lordnacho]

Isn't the false dichotomy between capitalism and communism exactly the kind of thing an aspiring writer might choose to illuminate?

The hypocrisy he mentions in his work in Russia seems to be observed because he grew under communism. If he'd grown up in America, he might have written about some other injustices.