1. I would want to know too, but then again he was not supposed to compromise the state secrets he had sworn to protect.
2. What concerns Solzhenitsin - yes I consider him a traitor, a liar and an enemy of Russian people. One of the worst kind Russia ever produced.
3. That German officer is a traitor too despite all sympaties we might have towards him now.

We can be sympathetic to traitors, we can understand their motives, but they still remain traitors nevertheless.
Once a traitor - always a traitor.