Alexander Solzhenitsyn was born in Russia, DECEMBER 11, 1918.
He was arrested for writing a letter criticizing Stalin and spent 11 years in labor camps.
He began writing and eventually received the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Speaking in Washington, D.C., June 30, 1975, Solzhenitsyn warned:
"In pre-revolutionary Russia...there were attempts of the Tsar's life...about 17 persons a year were executed...
The Cheka (Communist Secret Police)...in 1918 and 1919...executed, without trial, more than a thousand persons a month...
At the height of Stalin's terror in 1937-38...more than 40,000 persons were shot per month!"
Solzhenitsyn added:
"I...call upon America to be more careful with its trust...
Prevent those...from falsely using...social justice to lead you down a false road...
They are trying to weaken you."
Solzhenitsyn ended:
"We can only reach with determination for the warm hand of God, which we have so rashly and self-confidently pushed away."
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