1) Short Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn quote thread:
Over a half century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of old people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia:
Over a half century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of old people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia:
2) "Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened," they would say. Since then, I have spent well-nigh 50 years working on the history of the Communist revolution in Russia; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and
3) have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval. But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people,
4) I could not put it more accurately than to repeat:
"Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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