"The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world."

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 💎 #BoTD 1918

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918 –2008) was a Russian novelist, philosopher, historian, short story writer and political prisoner. Solzhenitsyn was an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union and Communism and helped to raise global awareness of the Soviet Gulag forced-labor camp system.

Solzhenitsyn was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature". His The Gulag Archipelago was a highly influential work that "amounted to a head-on challenge to the Soviet state".

"... the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia...hated Russians...they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse. It cannot be overstated. Bolshevism committed the greatest human slaughter of all time."
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"The strength or weakness of a society depends more on the level of its spiritual life than on its level of industrialization. ... A tree with a rotten core cannot stand."
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn