It is a bit too easy for people in the West to deplore the failure of intellectuals living in unfree societies to follow the example of a Solzhenitsyn.

• （这看起来）非常对西方人容易：（悔恨或不再犯）（生活在）在非自由社会的知识分子企图追随索尔仁尼琴（的行动）的失败