When Russia started to regain some of its strength as an economy and as a state, the West's reaction - perhaps a… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
One should not ascribe the evil deeds of individual leaders or political regimes to an innate fault of the Russian people and… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity'… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
As for Europe, its claims towards Russia are fairly transparently based on fears about energy, unjustified fears at that. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
There is something predetermined in the mutual attraction between Germany and Russia. Otherwise, this attraction would not have survived two ghastly World… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
If we look far into the future, one can see a time in the 21st century when both Europe and the USA… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
When the whole discussion of "developing a national idea" hastily began in post-Soviet Russia, I tried to pour cold water on it… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
When I returned to Russia in 1994, the Western world and its states were practically being worshipped. Admittedly, this was caused not… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Vladimir Putin inherited a ransacked and bewildered country, with a poor and demoralized people. And he started to do what was possible… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The Gulag Archipelago, 'he informed an incredulous world that the blood-maddened Jewish terrorists had murdered sixty-six million victims in Russia from 1918… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
What would things been like [in Russia] if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there, paling with terror… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
An opposition is necessary and desirable for the healthy development of any country. You can scarcely find anyone in opposition, except for… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
You must understand, the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Boris Yeltsin's period was characterized by a no less irresponsible attitude to people's lives, but in other ways. In his haste to… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
If you wanted to put the world to rights, who should you begin with: yourself or others? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share
“...you are strong only as long as you don't deprive people of everything . For a person you've taken everything from is no longer… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share
Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share
It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with the guidance… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share
Human nature is full of riddles; . . . one of those riddles is: how is it that people who have been crushed by… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share
“It was astonishing that the pseudo wreckers, who knew perfectly well that they weren't wreckers, believed that military men and priests were being shaken… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share
When the whole discussion of "developing a national idea" hastily began in post-Soviet Russia, I tried to pour cold water on it with the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share
“It was granted me to carry away from my prison years on my bent back, which nearly broke beneath its load, this essential experience;… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share
Call no day happy 'til it is done; call no man happy til he is dead. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share
Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relationships, this creates an atmosphere of spiritual mediocrity that paralyzes a person's noblest impulses. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share
The same old caveman feeling-greed, envy, violence, and mutual hate, which along the way assumed respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, racial struggle, mass struggle,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share
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