Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes About Communism
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It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
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To coexist with communism on the same planet is impossible. Either it will spread, cancer-like, to destroy mankind, or else mankind will have to rid itself of communism (and even then face lengthy treatment for secondary tumors).
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Communism will never be halted by negotiations or through the machinations of detente. It can only be halted by force from without or by disintegration from within.
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I dare hope that all the peoples who have lived through communism will understand that communism is to blame for the bitter pages of their history.
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For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
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