Solzhenitsyn wrote of the calamities that afflicted his people in the bloody wake of the [[Bolshevik Revolution]]. At one point he wrote,
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{{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>}}