[mjklin]

A similar thing happened when Alexander Solzhenitsyn defected to the US from the USSR. As long as he was blasting the Soviets everybody listened, but when he started critiquing the US as well…his speaking invitations dried up.

[dontlaugh]

Solzhenitsyn was famously full of shit, according to most historians and his own wife.

Not exactly a good comparison, the only similarity is the reaction of the US press.