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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quote: “How old were you then?” “Fourteen.” “Do you remember anything about it?” “Very little.” “You don’t remember? It was like an earthquake. Apartment doors were flung wide open, people went in and took things and left. No one asked any questions. They deported a quarter of the city. Don’t you remember?” “Yes, I do. But the shameful thing is, at the time it didn’t seem the most important thing in the world. They explained it to us at school – why it was necessary, why it was expedient.”

351. “How old were you then?” “Fourteen.” “Do you remember anything about it?” “Very little.” “You don’t remember? It was like an earthquake. Apartment doors were flung wide open, people went in and took things and left. No one asked any questions. They deported a quarter of the city. Don’t you remember?” “Yes, I do. But the shameful thing is, at the time it didn’t seem the most important thing in the world. They explained it to us at school – why it was necessary, why it was expedient.”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quote: “We are exterminating the bourgeoisie as a class. It is not necessary during the interrogation to look for evidence proving that the accused opposed the Soviets by word or action. The first question which you should ask him is what class does he belong to, what is his origin, his education and his profession. These are the questions which will determine the fate of the accused. Such is the sense and the essence of red terror.”

352. “We are exterminating the bourgeoisie as a class. It is not necessary during the interrogation to look for evidence proving that the accused opposed the Soviets by word or action. The first question which you should ask him is what class does he belong to, what is his origin, his education and his profession. These are the questions which will determine the fate of the accused. Such is the sense and the essence of red terror.”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quote: “Just as a star suddenly flares to a hundred times its previous brightness – and then fades away, so, too, a human being not disposed to be a political may nonetheless flare up briefly and intensely in prison and perish as a result. Ordinarily we do not learn about these cases. Sometimes there is a witness to tell about them. Sometimes there is merely a faded piece of paper in front of us on which we can only build hypothesis;.”

353. “Just as a star suddenly flares to a hundred times its previous brightness – and then fades away, so, too, a human being not disposed to be a political may nonetheless flare up briefly and intensely in prison and perish as a result. Ordinarily we do not learn about these cases. Sometimes there is a witness to tell about them. Sometimes there is merely a faded piece of paper in front of us on which we can only build hypothesis;.”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quote: “Even a strong man had no way left him to fight the prison machine, except perhaps suicide. But is suicide really resistance? Isn’t it actually submission?”

354. “Even a strong man had no way left him to fight the prison machine, except perhaps suicide. But is suicide really resistance? Isn’t it actually submission?”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quote: “The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie.”

355. “The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie.”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quote: “In one of my prewar lectures – they were devilishly daring! – I developed this excerpt from Goethe into the elegiac idea that there is no such thing as happiness, that it is either unattainable or illusory. Then, suddenly, a note was passed to me, a page torn out of a miniature notebook – squared paper: “ ‘But I’m in love – and I am happy! What do you say to that?’ ” “What did you say?” “What can anybody say?”

356. “In one of my prewar lectures – they were devilishly daring! – I developed this excerpt from Goethe into the elegiac idea that there is no such thing as happiness, that it is either unattainable or illusory. Then, suddenly, a note was passed to me, a page torn out of a miniature notebook – squared paper: “ ‘But I’m in love – and I am happy! What do you say to that?’ ” “What did you say?” “What can anybody say?”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quote: “Alex: “Oh, great science!” That’s the same as saying, “Oh, we great minds!” or even more precisely, “Oh, great me!” People have worshipped fire, the moon, and wooden idols – but I’m afraid that worshipping an idol is not so pitiful as worshipping oneself.”

357. “Alex: “Oh, great science!” That’s the same as saying, “Oh, we great minds!” or even more precisely, “Oh, great me!” People have worshipped fire, the moon, and wooden idols – but I’m afraid that worshipping an idol is not so pitiful as worshipping oneself.”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quote: “Where did this wolf-tribe appear from among our people? Does it really stem from our own roots? Our own blood? It is our own. And just so we don’t go around flaunting too proudly the white mantle of the just, let everyone ask himself: “If my life had turned out differently, might I myself not have become just such an executioner?” It is a dreadful question if one really answers it honestly.”

358. “Where did this wolf-tribe appear from among our people? Does it really stem from our own roots? Our own blood? It is our own. And just so we don’t go around flaunting too proudly the white mantle of the just, let everyone ask himself: “If my life had turned out differently, might I myself not have become just such an executioner?” It is a dreadful question if one really answers it honestly.”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quote: “On the great Belomor Canal even an automobile was a rarity. Everything was created, as they say in camp, with ‘fart power’.”

359. “On the great Belomor Canal even an automobile was a rarity. Everything was created, as they say in camp, with ‘fart power’.”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quote: “There are questions on which a definite opinion has been established, and they are no longer open to discussion.”

360. “There are questions on which a definite opinion has been established, and they are no longer open to discussion.”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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