“... "the historical necessity of development" -- you can spout that nonsense about anything and you'll always be right.” — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I dare hope that all the peoples who have lived through communism will understand that communism is to blame for the bitter… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“... History sometimes does know revenge, a sort of voluptuous and delayed justice, but chooses strange forms for it and unexpected executors… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
If we don't know our own history, then we simply will have to endure all of the same mistakes, all of the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Nowhere on the planet, nowhere in history, was there a regime more vicious, more bloodthirsty, and at the same time more cunning… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
If we could all take a sober look at our history, then we would no longer see this nostalgic attitude to the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The revolution is an amalgam of former Party functionaries, quasi- democrats, KGB officers, and black-market wheeler-dealers, who are standing in power now… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
A great number of publications and movies on the history of the 20th century - albeit of uneven quality - are evidence… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Violence, less and less embarrassed by the limits imposed by centuries of lawfulness, is brazenly and victoriously striding across the whole world,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Andrei Yanuaryevich (one longs to blurt out, “Jaguaryevich”) Vyshinsky, availing himself of the most flexible dialectics (of a sort nowadays not permitted… — 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 Image
“...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 Image
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 Image
If there were no executioners, there would be no executions. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Call no day happy 'til it is done; call no man happy til he is dead. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
