tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5637864682999679595.post7710281672090666475..comments2024-02-13T03:24:07.880-06:00Comments on The Eye-Witness: Solzhenitsyn: The Der Spiegel InterviewAged parenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05217229048176272954noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5637864682999679595.post-3378825460541164022017-01-29T08:23:25.467-06:002017-01-29T08:23:25.467-06:00I know so little about this man, but he said somet...I know so little about this man, but he said something in a documentary of Fatima that stayed with me in essence. He said we continue to "push away the warm hand of God", and we bring about our own destruction in that way.<br />We need him today, when young people in the USA are being indoctrinated into Socialism and Marxism in our public schools and culture. The number of people who continue to support Bernie Sanders is still alarming. We have no counterpoint to the promotion of atheistic Communism in our schools.<br />So it seems Russia is moving away from a godless regime, and there are too many in the USA who are ignorant of it and embrace it. We have many, many Christians in the United States, probably half of our population, but now many of the others. If you have not God, you are probably helpless against Marxism or Communism.Kathleen1031https://www.blogger.com/profile/10201084623185206141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5637864682999679595.post-37424982173978076502017-01-25T14:44:45.490-06:002017-01-25T14:44:45.490-06:00An interesting interview, but I'm not sure it ...An interesting interview, but I'm not sure it reveals much of the Russian world view. A much better source is a little booklet "Alexander Solzhenitsyn Speaks to the West", ISBN 0-370-30175-7 published in 1978. Contained in its 100 pages the 'Russian Soul' is revealed not by its condemnation of communism but by its criticism of the West which enabled, (and still enables), the evils of communistic thought to flourish. <br />His address to Harvard students in June 1978, (available on internet) needs to be read and re-read. Not only did it fall on deaf ears but it went down like lead balloon!<br />As Robert Burns said, 'to ourselves as other see us', well, Solzhenitsyn provided us a mirror, alas we didn't like what we saw.<br />Toward the end of the address Solzhenitsyn says;<br />"We cannot avoid reassessing the fundamental definitions of human life and human society. Is it true that man is above everything? Is there no Superior Spirit above him. Is it right that man's life and society's activities should be ruled by material expansion above all?"<br />A theme which was also addressed by Dostoyevsky.<br />G.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com