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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (view source)
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Solzhenitsyn wrote of the calamities that afflicted his people in the bloody wake of the [[Bolshevik Revolution]]. At one point he wrote,
Solzhenitsyn wrote of the calamities that afflicted his people in the bloody wake of the [[Bolshevik Revolution]]. At one point he wrote,
{{Quotebox|Over half a 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: "Men have forgotten God". They said that's why all this has happened. Since then I have spent well nigh 50 years working on the history of our [[revolution]], 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, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat, men have forgotten God. That's why all this has happened.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVDYYQnCWp8</ref>}}
{{Quotebox|Over half a 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: "Men have forgotten God". They said that's why all this has happened. Since then I have spent well nigh 50 years working on the history of our [[revolution]], 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, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat, men have forgotten God. That's why all this has happened.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVDYYQnCWp8</ref>}}
== Quotes==
* "We watch this process in the past centuries and especially in the past decades, on a world scale as the situation becomes increasingly dramatic. Liberalism was inevitably displaced by radicalism; radicalism had to surrender to socialism; and socialism could never resist communism."A World Split Apart, Commencement Address Delivered at Harvard University <ref>[https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/alexandersolzhenitsynharvard.htm A World Split Apart]</ref><ref>[https://archive.org/details/worldsplitapart00alek Commencement Address Delivered at Harvard University]</ref>, June 8, 1978
== Famous works ==
== Famous works ==