#Alexander SOlzhenitsyn

[inkwell-chronicles]

If we are suffering or going through a hardship, we should stop blaming and saying someone is suffocating us. We ourselves are doing it.

(Live Not By Lies)

[roseslaces]

"You must understand. The leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse. The October Revolution was not what you call in America the "Russian Revolution." It was an invasion and conquest over the Russian people. More of my countrymen suffered horrific crimes at their bloodstained hands than any people or nation ever suffered in the entirety of human history. It cannot be [over]stated. Bolshevism was the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant of this reality is proof that the global media itself is in the hands of the perpetrators."

-Alexander Solzhenitsyn

[quote-bomber]

[juliansummerhayes]

Has anyone read this?

[pwlanier]

Kalita Nikolai Ivanovich (1926-2016). Portrait of the writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn. 1980s. Woodcut print.

Under the print is the author's monogram in pencil.

Soviet graphic artist, illustrator and book designer, poster artist. Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. In 1953 he graduated from the Moscow State Institute of Arts named after V. And. Surikova, studied at the department of book graphics with B. A. Dekhtereva and M. C Matorina. One of his first works in the book is the design of the comedy by D. And. Fonvizin "Nedorosl" (1958) - awarded the prize of the First All-Union Contest of the Best Books (1958). He received the first prize and a gold medal for illustrations for Stendhal's novel Lucien Leuwen at the VII World Festival of Youth and Students in Vienna (1959). He made posters, advertising and social posters. N. And. Kalita is a participant of more than 200 different art exhibitions - republican, all-Union, Russian and international. Member of the State Expert Commission of the Ministry of Culture of the USSR, the Procurement Commission of the Union of Artists of the RSFSR, the Organizing Committee of the All-Union Art Lottery, the Expert Salon for the sale of works of art abroad.

Nikitskiy

[viecome]

Reflexiones. Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Sabemos que nos mienten. Saben que nos mienten. Saben que sabemos que nos mienten. Sabemos que saben que sabemos que nos mienten. Y aún así, siguen mintiendo. Alexander Solzhenitsyn

[asyoulikeitnow]

If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, novelist, Nobel laureate (1918-2008)

[unversodenso]

Una misma persona, a sus distintas edades, en distintas situaciones de la vida, es alguien totalmente diferente. Unas veces está cerca del diablo y otras del santo. Pero siempre se llama igual y siempre se trata del mismo hombre.

-ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN, El archipiélago Gulag

[craigtowens]

Still Maturing

Sometimes people think that their Christianity matures to a point where they no long have to face difficulties. Actually, the difficulties are bringing a greater maturity and fruitfulness in that Christian’s life that could be realized in no other way.

Listen to the podcast of this post by clicking on the player below, and you can also subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or Audible.  https://craigtowens.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/still-maturing.mp3 Have you ever said to yourself…  …I should have known better?   …why I am going through this again?   …I thought I was over this hurdle?  …you would think I would have matured enough by now to not…

[inkwell-chronicles]

"We don't even fear universal nuclear death, and we do not fear a third world war. We just fear acts of civil courage."

-Alexander Solzhenitsyn (Live Not By Lies)

[nosferdoc]

“History, in other words, allows people to achieve distance from the era in which they were born, and promotes what one might call social sanity. It is not, as some have shamefully claimed, a form of psychological escapism—at least Johnson didn't think so. Neither did C.S. Lewis, who said that ‘[t]o study the past does indeed liberate us from the present, from the idols of our own marketplace.’ The historian, he said, ‘has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age.’ As Solzhenitsyn feared, without the ballast of the past, the present can easily be capsized by the ruthless and the power hungry.”

— Allen Guelzo, National Affairs, Summer 2022.

[culturevulturette]

So where do we go from here? 

[postersbykeith]

[lythrontiro-argestes]

How can you expect a man who's warm to understand a man who's cold?

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

[elegantzombielite]

"If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?"

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, novelist, Nobel laureate (11 December 1918-2008)

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