Don't live by Solzhenitsyn's lies. “Live not by lies” (Based on the works of A. I. Solzhenitsyn) Life not by lies

Sections: History and social studies

Lesson objectives: continue to get acquainted with the personality and work of A.I. Solzhenitsyn, the peculiarities of the development of the Soviet state in the 60s - 70s, continue to develop the ability to work with a document, highlight the main thing, find and solve problems, reflect on the moral lessons of history, contribute to the formation of moral values in students.

Lesson Concepts: totalitarianism, citizenship, spirituality, morality, openness, Samizdat, dissidents.

Lesson equipment: texts of the document (excerpt), questions to the text, photographs of A.I. Solzhenitsyn.

Epigraph:“To show the world a society in which all relations, foundations and laws will flow from morality - and only from it!” (A.I. Solzhenitsyn “Cancer Ward”).

Introductory part of the lesson.

The biblical commandment says: "Thou shalt not lie." It has become a universal moral norm. But how many times in history have people and rulers violated it: they distorted the texts of messages, took false oaths, and deceived their people! Vladimir Monomakh in his “Teaching to Children” wrote: “Beware of lies, and drunkenness, and fornication, because from them the soul and body perish.”

Guys, can you give examples from literature and life of how lies destroy a person’s spiritual world?

Today we are getting acquainted with excerpts from A.I. Solzhenitsyn’s appeal “Do not live by lies!” Work on it was carried out by the writer in 1972-1973. At the end of August 1973 it was completed, but appeared in Samizdat in 1974. this was preceded by the following events. In 1973 The first volume of The Gulag Archipelago was published in Paris, where the history of repression was laid bare to the utmost. The persecution of the writer began in the USSR. But it was impossible to prove that he slandered Soviet power in “Archipelago” even at that time. Then the writer was accused of a more serious crime - treason. The head of the KGB, Yu.V. Andropov, and the Prosecutor General, R.A. Rudenko, sent a note to the Secretariat of the CPSU Central Committee on the “expediency of expelling Solzhenitsyn from the Soviet state.” The Politburo adopted a special resolution “On the suppression of Solzhenitsyn’s anti-Soviet activities.” On February 11, 1974, legal proceedings were initiated against him. criminal case. A deportation order was adopted on December 12. On the same day, the writer was deprived of citizenship. On February 13, without any announcement to him in advance, he was deported to Germany. A photograph captured him descending the plane at the airport in Frankfurt. -on-Main. What was he thinking about at that moment, finding himself unexpectedly in a foreign country? Maybe it was whether he would ever return to his homeland. But on the same day his appeal “To live not according to” was published. lies!"

Working with document text.

Questions and tasks for working with text:

1. Read the text carefully, highlight the sentences in which the word “lie” is used. Get ready to read the text expressively.

2. Why do you think this article by Solzhenitsyn was called an appeal? (Approximate answer: This is not just an article, but a call to the Soviet people, citizens of their country).

3. What phenomena of a totalitarian state does A.I. Solzhenitsyn oppose? Provide phrases from the text that support your words. (Sample answers: lack of glasnost - “... having gathered in the smoking rooms of the research institute, we complain from the bottom of our hearts”, lack of freedom of creativity” - we write and read Samizdat", the arbitrariness of the party-state bureaucracy - “they judge whoever they want”, making the most important decisions without participation citizens, lack of democracy - “they don’t listen to us, don’t ask us”, “we are gagged”, lack of effective mechanisms for the authorities to be accountable to citizens - “there are no re-elections in our country”, ideological pressure - “we’ve been hammered at in political circles”, etc. d.).

4. What actions of the Soviet leadership in the late 60-70s. cause the writer's protest? (support for regimes hiding behind socialist phraseology, inciting civil wars, allocating large amounts of funds for the development of the space industry while maintaining a low standard of living for the population, persecution of dissidents - “people are being driven into madness”...).

5. How do you understand A.I. Solzhenitsyn’s expression: “We...have become dehumanized”? What problems of the spiritual development of the country concern him? (The writer criticizes the psychology of consumerism, man’s readiness to “give... his soul, all the efforts of our ancestors”, to come to terms with meanness in the name of preserving his “fragile existence”, “feeding trough”, “Moscow registration”, “white loaves”, lack of spirituality, the desire for a “comfortable” life, the fear of “breaking away from the herd.” The teacher can quote the words of the writer S. Aleksievich: “Solzhenitsyn’s name alone suggests that pleasure is not the main thing that a person should strive for, that comfort is not the only thing. is worth cherishing. Something elusive is hidden in the lines of our favorite songs, in the colors of brilliant paintings, in the pages of novels...").

6. Why does the writer believe that violence requires lies? Give examples from history when rulers hid behind lies to commit injustice. What realities from the history of the Soviet state during the era of L.I. Brezhnev can you cite to confirm the writer’s thought? (children can give the following arguments: an undemocratic regime cannot survive for long, relying only on violence, it needs to create an external appearance of justice - “violence has nothing to hide behind except lies.” From history, students can give an example of the Ems dispatch, the text of which was distorted by O. Bismarck and was used as a pretext for the Franco-Prussian war. From the history of the USSR in the 60-70s - false accusations against dissidents, the entry of Soviet troops into Czechoslovakia in 1968, into Afghanistan in 1979, etc.) .

7. Why do you think the writer believes that it is not “they” who are to blame, but “us”? What does he see as civil courage? Do you agree with him? How do you understand the expressions “spiritual independence” and “spiritual servility”? (the children's expected line of reasoning: civic courage is manifested in an independent civic position, in a readiness to resist the herd instinct, a readiness to take responsibility for one's actions. A person should not blame only external forces: the environment, social conditions, the government. Much depends on him. Very important for a person, awareness of spiritual freedom. One can cite the words of N.A. Berdyaev: “We will free ourselves from external oppression only when we free ourselves from internal slavery, that is, we take responsibility for ourselves and stop blaming external forces for everything.”).

8.What path to spiritual liberation does A.I. Solzhenitsyn offer? Why does he consider this path the most accessible? (personal non-participation in lies: people were not ready for democratic methods at that time, and “other fatal paths, tried over the last century in the bitter Russian history, are especially not about us...”, “the vileness of the methods is reflected in the vileness of the results”) .

9. Why do you think Solzhenitsyn ends his appeal with these very words of A.S. Pushkin? How do you understand them? (if people continue to support lies, then spiritual slavery will strike not only them, but also their descendants “from generation to generation”).

10. How did A.I. Solzhenitsyn himself follow the commandment “not to live by lies”? (students give examples that even with external lack of freedom, Alexander Isaevich remained an internally free person. One can cite the statement: “Solzhenitsyn’s life is his best and indisputable work.” (“Between two anniversaries (1998-2003).” Writers, critics and literary critics about the work of A.I. Solzhenitsyn: Almanac. M.: Russian Way, 2005. P. 82). He survived Stalin's camps and a fatal illness, which did not break his spirit. He created the epic of the World War, the February and October Revolutions, and the Gulag. He returned moral strength and the best traditions to Russian literature. He was a man who knew the era and spoke about the era, which was characteristic of it. civil courage and civic position.)

Conclusion.

Father John said about A.I. Solzhenitsyn: “Alexander Isaevich is a man you can trust. He was a teacher of life, and this irritated many, maybe because the gift of discipleship has been lost in us.” Today in class we had the opportunity to once again learn from the great writer, to touch his thoughts, his hopes. By discussing the moral issues that he raises in his article, we were able to learn more about the writer himself and the difficult time when it was created.

What thoughts expressed in this work do you consider relevant?

Homework: answer the question in writing: What do the words “not live by a lie” mean to you?

On September 18, 1990, Literaturnaya Gazeta and Komsomolskaya Pravda published Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s essay “How can we develop Russia.” In this work, the author outlined his views on the current situation in the country, assessed the future of the state and made the people happy with a number of valuable reform proposals.

If we were talking about the creation of some Russophobic dissident, happily forgotten by today, then there would be no need to remember the above essay. Alas, the author of the instructions for the development of Russia is not an anti-Soviet who has disappeared into obscurity. Here we are talking about a famous writer, whose works are included in the school curriculum, a Nobel Prize winner and almost a symbol of dissident resistance. Many years of propaganda have convinced the masses that Solzhenitsyn is an unconditional moral guide, a kind of Leo Tolstoy of our time and, in general, almost the conscience of the entire nation.

What exactly the conscience of the nation wrote about is less talked about, but by the way, the conversation could turn out to be extremely entertaining. Take this very essay, for example. Even reading just the first page is enough to seriously doubt that its author is a renowned giant of thought. Both the style, the style, and the logic of this work would be more suitable for some modern Black-Hundred and half-educated priest-obscurantist. Naturally, we cannot quote the entire multi-page essay here, but it is simply impossible to remain silent about some of its fragments. So, these are the thoughts that the brain of the nation’s conscience gave birth to:

“Having dragged along for seventy years behind the blind and malignant Marx-Leninist utopia, we have put a third of our population on the chopping block or derailed a mediocre, even self-destructive, “Patriotic” war.” We lost our former abundance, destroyed the peasant class and its villages, we destroyed the very point of growing bread, and we stopped the land from yielding crops, and even flooded it with seas and swamps. With the waste of primitive industry, we polluted the surroundings of cities, poisoned rivers, lakes, fish, today we are completely destroying the last water, air and earth, with the addition of atomic death, and also purchasing radioactive waste from the West for storage. Ruining ourselves for future great conquests under mad leadership, we cut down our rich forests, plundered our incomparable mineral resources, the irreplaceable heritage of our great-grandchildren, and mercilessly sold them abroad. They exhausted our women in heavy lifting work, tore them away from their children, and sent the children themselves into illness, savagery, and false education. Our health is in complete disrepair, and there are no medicines, and we have even forgotten healthy food, and millions are without housing, and helpless personal lawlessness is spread throughout the depths of the country - and we are holding on to only one thing: so that we are not deprived of insane drunkenness.”

And this man called on us not to live by lies, in every possible way dressed himself in the toga of a genuine Russian writer, a true patriot, and, like no one else, he knew how to take on the image of a mournful sage-sufferer if he found himself in the camera lens. Meanwhile, almost everything that is said in the quoted passage is a lie. Even his Great Patriotic War, apparently, is not Patriotic, since this word is put in quotation marks, which should hint to the reader at the imaginary absurdity of such a definition.

And what about the remarks about the “ineptly conducted” war and the “loss of a third of the population”! To this day, they are applauded by our liberal and conservative-clerical public, who do not want to listen to the arguments of historians who, back in 1993, established that the USSR lost 6.3 million military personnel in the war with the Germans. The Reich lost 6.5 million - that is, MORE than us. As for the losses of civilians, the Soviet government cannot be responsible for the deaths of civilians who were bombed by German planes and killed by the SS in the occupied territories.

But the expert on the development of Russia, of course, does not limit himself to fiction about the war2. What comes from his pen is not an analysis of the real situation in the USSR, but rather a picture of a local Apocalypse, where, to all the horrors, the flooding of the earth with “marsh seas” is added. A hint, probably, to the numerous hydroelectric power stations built by the Soviet government, since the security officers were inconvenient to shoot billions of people in pitch darkness.

It is also unclear what natural resources Russia is selling today, because, according to Solzhenitsyn, our mineral resources have been “plundered” and our forests have been cut down. In addition, demonstrating impeccable command of literate Russian speech, Alexander Isaevich writes that “ children were allowed into illness, into savagery and into a counterfeit education.”

I wouldn’t like to repeat platitudes, but actually it was during the Soviet era that people learned to read and write. In Tsarist Russia, beloved by Solzhenitsyn, less than 30 percent were literate3.

“The awakening Russian national self-consciousness, to a large extent, cannot free itself from the spatial-power thinking, from the imperial dope, it has adopted from the communists the inflated “Soviet patriotism” that never existed and is proud of that “great Soviet power”, which in the era of Ilyich the Second’s chushka only devoured the last productivity of our decades on endless and unnecessary (and now being destroyed in vain) weapons, disgraced us, presented us to the whole planet as a fierce, greedy, immense invader - when our knees are already shaking, we are about to collapse from powerlessness. This is the most harmful distortion of our consciousness: “but it’s a big country, we are taken into account everywhere” - this is, even in our dying days, selfless support for communism. Japan could have reconciled, abandoned both the international mission and tempting political adventures - and immediately flourished.”

Does the writer want to say that we should have been pacified in the past in the same way as Japan? If so, then he should have understood that in such a situation the matter would not have been limited to two atomic bombs. However, he understood, and how. His calls for the Americans to “come and intervene” and his provocative speeches about the USSR as a world evil, which is supposedly “determined to destroy yours”, are well known. American - editor's note) build"4.

As time has shown, NATO bombers were not needed to destroy the formation. The country collapsed through the efforts of its own heroes, including Solzhenitsyn, whose role, of course, was not practical participation, but ideological justification for destruction. After long and vaguely convincing readers that they should abandon imperial thinking, the author ultimately proves that even if a number of the union republics he designated refuse to secede, then Russia itself needs to cut them off from itself.

“So, it is necessary to declare the undoubted right to the complete separation of those twelve republics urgently and firmly. And if some of them waver, should they separate? With the same certainty, we who remain are forced to announce our separation from them.”

What is this if not betrayal? What will happen to those millions of Russians who will remain in the breakaway countries?

“Millions of people will be faced with a difficult question: stay where they live or leave? - and this is associated with the ruin of their entire life, everyday life and the need for significant help. Where to go? where is the new shelter? how to survive until a new job? This should not become a personal misfortune, but the concern of these expert commissions and government compensation. And every newly created state must provide clear guarantees for the rights of minorities.”

I wonder what Russian-speaking citizens and “non-citizens” of the Baltic states, Turkmenistan and a number of other former Soviet republics would say to Solzhenitsyn today? Alexander Isaevich scolds Brezhnev with chushka, which in thieves' dialect means an unclean, unkempt person who does not take care of his appearance. In this case, many could rightfully call an expert on the development of Russia a moral bogeyman.

Behind the guise of a giant of thought who sympathizes with the people, we can easily guess the banal propagandist of capitalism.

“There cannot be an independent citizen without private property,” this is what the Nobel Prize laureate leads his confused reasoning to, constantly stipulating the need to prevent monopolization, predatory capitalism and other ESSENTIAL properties of a market economy.

However, it is not only the lack of private property that prevents Russian people from living happily.

“And our immediate concern is school. How much we have made fun of her over 70 years! - but rarely in any years did she produce knowledgeable ones from us, and then only in a proportion of subjects, and even such and such - only in selected schools in large cities, and a provincial Lomonosov, and especially a village one, would never appear today, would not make his way, There are no ways for this (and above all, “registration”). The rise of schools should happen not only in the best capital cities, but by persistent movement from the lowest level and throughout the entire country. This task is by no means more urgent than all our economic ones. Our school has been teaching and educating poorly for a long time.”

No, the man with the telling surname Solzhenitsyn definitely chose an extremely unfortunate title for his essay. Based on the fact that his “mind” gave birth, a more appropriate title would be “The Propagandist’s Handbook for Preschool Children,” because you only need to have the erudition of a kindergarten fool to believe this lampoon.

Soviet schools and universities, famous for the extremely high level of education received there, which graduated hundreds and hundreds of thousands of highly professional specialists who were still in demand in the West, according to Solzhenitsyn, it turns out, “rarely produced those who knew.” One can only guess what was going on in the minds of people of the late Soviet and early post-Soviet era, when they read such slander and believed in it, although the reality itself refuted Solzhenitsyn and others like him.

I in no way want to say that the Soviet system was impeccable or that Stalinism did not commit crimes. However, why was it so necessary to lie shamelessly for the sake of a beautiful critical word, demonstrating ignorance and moral degradation? Varlam Shalamov, describing the story of his suffering, was able to do without lying. He did not need to invent nonsense to make the reader horrified by what was described in the same “Kolyma Stories.” Varlam Tikhonovich’s stern, strict and truly literary style contrasts with Solzhenitsyn’s stony, clumsy speech, filled with endlessly multiplying made-up mutant words. Alas, it is the latter who is elevated to the pedestal, and Shalamov is remembered less and less. His laurels were appropriated by a traitor, slanderer and... antidemocrat! The last fact is especially important, since the admiration that liberals bestow on Solzhenitsyn is a very strange phenomenon. Here is what the Nobel laureate writes:

“When in 1937 Stalin introduced our monkey “elections”, he was forced to give them the form of universal-equal-direct-secret voting (“four-tailed”), an order that in today’s world seems undeniable as a universal law of nature... Since 1918 it has slipped (sic! - approx. ed.) to universal suffrage and England. Dostoevsky considered universal and equal voting “the most absurd invention of the 19th century.” In any case, it is not Newton’s law, and it is permissible to doubt its properties. “Universal and equal” - with extreme inequality of individuals, their abilities, their contribution to public life, different ages, different life experiences, different degrees of rootedness in this area and in this country? That is, the triumph of meaningless quantity over meaningful quality. And yet, such elections (“general civil”) presuppose the unstructured nature of the nation: that it is not a living organism, but a mechanical collection of scattered units. “Secret” is also not an ornament; it alleviates spiritual indirectness or, alas, meets the needs of fear.”

Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov would approve of such a position. This is more difficult for a normal person to do. The idol of dissidence demonstrates here, firstly, a complete misunderstanding of the very essence of democracy, and secondly, he is engaged in very low-grade demagoguery, calling for the introduction of a residency requirement for voters and the creation of an extremely dubious system of democracy for small spaces, with zemstvos and a Duma composed of representatives of the estates!

On the other hand, this is not surprising. The man who, as Shalamov aptly noted, was engaged in the activities of a businessman, “narrowly aimed at personal success with all the provocative accessories”5, shone, denouncing the Soviet system to applause from the enemy camp. However, as soon as he began, as they would say today, to put forward a positive program, he publicly revealed his own intellectual squalor, banality of thought, historical illiteracy and inability to be a creator. He could only seem to be the latter. The essay “How can we organize Russia” is not the only proof of this.

"Live not by lies. By hook or by crook"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzfu9JzQ0ac

Under whose dictation did Solzhenitsyn write?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9tncY3tAEc&t=56s

Historian Elizaveta Pashkova talks about the sources from which Solzhenitsyn drew his ideological constructs, when and by whom the term “communofascism” was coined, and why “The Gulag Archipelago” was first published by the YMCA-Press publishing house. Presenter - Andrey Fefelov

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“England, France, the USA are the victorious powers in World War II” (Speech in New York on July 9, 1975 \\ Solzhenitsyn A.I. American speeches. - Paris: YMKA-PRESS, 1975.YMCA PRESS, p. 27 ), and through the mouth of his heroes he says to our people, “Wait, you bastards! Truman will come at you! He will throw an atomic bomb on your head!” (Gulag Archipelago. vol. 3. p. 52.)

It is well known that A. Solzhenitsyn is a camp informer, sext, informant, recruited without any pressure with the nickname “Vetrov”; he himself never denied this, because the thing is obvious. Having served his sentence without a single disciplinary punishment, Isaevich agreed that he was writing a written denunciation from prison against his friend Kirill Simonyan (“... while drowning, I splashed you on the shore...” - this is how he artistically described his betrayal to his friend in a letter). In 1952 Simonyan was called by the investigator and given a thick notebook of 52 pages to read, filled with the neat handwriting of his friend Sani Solzhenitsyn, which was well known to Kirill. “Heavenly powers!” cried Simonyan, “every page describes how I am opposed to Soviet power and how I persuaded him to do so.” Nikolai Vitkovich also read the denunciations of his confidant friend about himself. "I couldn't believe my eyes!" - this is how he described the impression of reading. All this is well known, only those who are completely blinded paint us a blissful portrait of the Nobel laureate.

There are so many lies and untruths in his books. and fiction, which simply evokes a feeling of disgust in an unbiased reader.
When Isaevich himself was pointed out about this, well, for example, a horror movie, that after the defeat of Wrangel in Sochi, White Guard officers and other nonsense were fed to the animals in the zoo, the writer simply stated that he was exploring reality using the method of artistic creativity and would not give up anything.

A. Tvardovsky said to Solzhenitsyn to his face: “You have nothing sacred.” M. Sholokhov pointed out: “Some kind of painful shamelessness.” L. Leonov, K. Simonov and others said almost the same thing.

For me personally, the person who declared about our Great Victory over fascism is approximately the following: what difference does it make who won: if they took down a portrait with a mustache and hung a portrait with a mustache, that’s all - unacceptable.
It is obvious that Solzhenitsyn actively participated in the implementation of the Dulles plan in the USSR, helped destroy the great industrial superpower, and now those who were in the same class with him are now singing hosannas to him, erecting monuments, giving him awards, and putting them in textbooks.

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In the USA on June 30, 1975, the “Russian patriot” declared: “I am a friend of America... The United States has long shown itself to be the most magnanimous and most generous country in the world... The course of history itself has brought you - made you world leaders... Please, interfere more in our internal affairs."

Liar Solzhenitsyn
Even a donkey can kick a dead lion.

Wonderful words said by A.I. Solzhenitsyn: “Don’t live by lies.” So we will retell the contents of the book “Do not create an idol” (VIZH No. 9-12, 1990) to see how Alexander Isaevich himself adhered to this principle. Its author, former editor of the Vlasov newspaper L.A. Samutin, who honestly served his time in the Vorkuta camp, was, in fact, a co-author of some pages of the book “The Gulag Archipelago.” In the seventies, at Solzhenitsyn’s request, he hid this manuscript in his home. Samutin remained faithful to Solzhenitsyn only until the moment when the KGB officers confiscated this manuscript from him. Three weeks earlier, their mutual friend Elizaveta Denisovna Voronyanskaya was summoned to the state security authorities; she wrote everything to Solzhenitsyn and was, as they say, on a “particularly close” relationship with him. Frightened, the woman hanged herself, and Samutin, having analyzed the circumstances of her death and his arrest, makes an unambiguous conclusion: it was none other than... Solzhenitsyn himself who reported them! This allowed him to raise a fuss in the West about Arkhip and state in the preface: “But now that state security has taken this book anyway, I have no choice but to publish it immediately.”

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Testimony of Vetrov (aka Solzhenitsyn). Photocopy.
“...informant Ivan (Megel) was killed with a targeted shot in the head. This was a method used in the camps to eliminate people who could be dangerous to secret informants of the camp leadership.” (Military History Magazine, No. 12, 1990, p. 77)

The school textbook includes Solzhenitsyn’s recommendations for a person who wants to “not live by a lie.”
“From this day on, he: - will not write, sign, or print in any way a single phrase that, in his opinion, distorts the truth...”
Just at the time of writing this, Isaich, in a race with Roy Medvedev for a prize of 5 thousand “bucks,” rushed to prove that the author of “Quiet Don” was not Sholokhov.
"...paintingly, sculpturally, photographically... will not depict a single distortion of the truth that distinguishes..."
IO, 11th grade, p. 220

It turned out that Isaich fabricated many of the “compassionate prisoners’ photographs” after his imprisonment.
Another fact of shamelessness. Here the State Archive workers could no longer stand it:
“If you count the number of those arrested under Article 58g, you will get that about two million people were in forced labor camps. Is two million a lot or not enough? Of course, it’s a lot, but to some it seems not enough, and they bring the figure to 110 million."
(For reference: Goebbels, who claims that the more incredible the lie, the faster they will believe it, was able to “overpower” only 14 million repressed people.)
Employees of the State Archive ridiculed Isaich’s phrase: “I do not dare to write the history of the Archipelago. I did not have a chance to read the documents.”

“Come to Moscow. These documents are waiting for you,” they sarcastically invited “one who does not live by a lie.” The Gulag archives are open! (Knowledge to the people, No. 6, 1990).
But he doesn’t have time to do this now. Just recently he wrote:
“There is no nation in the world more despicable, more abandoned, more alien and unnecessary than the Russian.” Not long ago, he begged the CIA for the Nobel Prize: “I need this prize. Like a step in a position, in a battle! And the sooner I get it, the harder I will become, the harder I’ll hit!”

The time for attacks on an “alien and unnecessary” nation has passed: the Union lies in ruins, on Isaich’s recommendation the Baltic states and Central Asia were “released,” there is blood and refugees all over the country... Now Russia must be equipped for new masters. And they know that the best anesthesia so that the “despicable nation” does not rebel is anti-communism.
Solzhenitsyn does this job well. The former sex worker is no stranger to working for the “master.”

Source http://greatstalin.ru/vs.aspx

Solzhenitsyn readings - first edition, updated (Dmitry Puchkov)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2dUBZ7AcsQ

Intelligence interrogation: Boris Yulin about the year of Solzhenitsyn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O7sQt27Zvo

Metropolitan Seraphim of Krutitsky and Kolomna

“The renegade Solzhenitsyn - the contempt of the people!”

“As the Metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Church, who constantly speaks out in defense of peace, I consider the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR to be the only correct measure in relation to A. Solzhenitsyn,” Metropolitan Seraphim of Krutitsky and Kolomna told a TASS correspondent. - Solzhenitsyn is notorious for his actions in support of circles hostile to our Motherland, our people. All his actions are essentially directed against the easing of international tension and the establishment of lasting peace on Earth“…”.

DECLASSIFIED: SAKHAROV AND SOLZHENITSYN AGENTS OF CIA INFLUENCE
CIA revelations about the collapse of the USSR AND FINANCING DISSIDENTS
DECLASSIFIED CIA DOCUMENTS

A. Sakharov: "What have I done..."

It is no longer a secret to anyone that the dissident movement in the USSR was inspired as a battering ram for the destruction of the USSR by completely different forces. But the voluntary or involuntary role of dissidents, who often “wanted the best, but it turned out as always,” is difficult to overestimate. Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn naturally look like Everests here. And the CIA is already beginning to cover up individual pages of its many kilometers of storage facilities.

Here is a CIA document called that:

"Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn: the Soviet dilemma"

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And here is also an interesting document called “The Spectrum of Soviet Dissidents.” All existing groups from the USSR are described here, including neo-Stalinists, whose dissatisfaction with certain actions of the authorities (which constantly happens in the same capitalist countries) can be used to their advantage. On the last page of the report is a map of potential dissidents in the USSR.

RESULT: Defeat of the USSR in the Cold War, indirectly inspired August putsch, criminal 90s.

"Truth Fighter" with an American stamp. Who did Solzhenitsyn work for?

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This book is now a bibliographic rarity. Solzhenitsyn managed to destroy not the entire circulation

If we take into account that I. A. Alberti did not react in any way to the accusation thrown at her, and she had such opportunities, then we can rightfully say that she was really connected with the American intelligence services and that it was they who recommended her to A. I. Solzhenitsyn as a secretary. But in this case, the opinion of V. E. Maksimov also deserves attention regarding Lenard Di Lisio. It turns out that with the appearance of I. A. Alberti in the Vermont house of A. I. Solzhenitsyn, he was placed under the complete and total control of the CIA...

INVESTIGATION OF ITAR TASS CORRESPONDENT

“The CIA has not yet declassified all documents about Solzhenitsyn” ITAR TASS

Corr. ITAR-TASS once again became convinced of this by requesting materials relating to Alexander Solzhenitsyn from the archives of the CIA and the US FBI. From the responses received, one gets the impression that for the United States the activities of the famous writer were much more profitable and less troublesome when he waged an irreconcilable struggle against Soviet power in the USSR itself than when he settled in the West.

The first period includes analytical notes “The Case against Solzhenitsyn”, “Alexander Solzhenitsyn and the Politburo” and “Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn: the Soviet Dilemma” sent from the CIA. They are dated respectively in the summer of 1969, December 15, 1970 and September 26, 1973...

Source: https://justpaste.it/16y55

Briefly about the CIA: On September 18, 1948, the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) of the United States was created, the main purpose of which was to conduct subversive activities against the Soviet Union-Russia..

http://www.opoccuu.com/180911.htm

CIA revelations about the collapse of the USSR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=e ... wU0sIzI6ME

Other US CIA crimes:

205 Human rights A look at the world War crimes USA MILITARY CRIMES Novikov Chronicle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNTjZqEGBRE

2012 04 16 Human rights USA =Nazi Germany Novikov Belarus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U50PZG6yJg

Human Rights: A Look at the World (09/19/2010) Concentration camps in the USA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0B5vkIqcGQ

Alex Jones on the Poison in Our Food Part 1/2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRBvO14Sbgg

Very briefly about how the dissident-hire traitor Solzhenitsyn collaborated with the US CIA for money and privileges, thus conducting subversive activities against the USSR-Russia (and therefore against its citizens), therefore against all the peoples inhabiting Russia. What disasters this led to for Russia is now known. It was the US CIA, Mossad and MI6 that stood and stand (now it is Ukraine...) behind the incitement and generous financing of wars both in the Caucasus and Transcaucasia, and Transnistria, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Syria and so on...

AMERICAN PLAN TO DESTROY RUSSIA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdazGCAjIo0

And here’s how the third world war began immediately after the end of the second:

Dulles Plan (US methods in the war against Russia)

Allen Dulles (1893-1969), worked for the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) since its creation in 1947. In 1942-1945. led political intelligence in Europe. Director of the CIA in 1953-1961. One of the organizers of intelligence, espionage and sabotage activities against the USSR and other socialist countries, an ideologist of the Cold War.

DULLES PLAN

The war will end, everything will somehow settle down, settle down. And we will throw everything we have - all the gold, all the material power - to fool and fool people!
The human brain and people's consciousness are capable of change. Having sowed chaos, we will quietly replace their values with false ones and force them to believe in these false values. How? We will find our like-minded people, our allies in Russia itself.
Episode after episode, the grandiose tragedy of the death of the most rebellious people on earth, the final, irreversible extinction of their self-awareness, will play out. From literature and art, for example, we will gradually erase their social essence, wean artists, we will discourage them from engaging in depiction... research, perhaps, of those processes that occur in the depths of the masses. Literature, theaters, cinema - everything will depict and glorify the basest human feelings. We will in every possible way support and raise the so-called artists who will plant and hammer into human consciousness the cult of sex, violence, sadism, betrayal - in a word, all immorality. We will create chaos and confusion in government.
We will quietly, but actively and constantly promote the tyranny of officials, bribe-takers, and unscrupulousness. Bureaucracy and red tape will be elevated to virtue. Honesty and decency will be ridiculed and will not be needed by anyone; they will turn into a relic of the past. Rudeness and arrogance, lies and deceit, drunkenness and drug addiction, animal fear of each other and shamelessness, betrayal, nationalism and enmity of peoples, above all enmity and hatred of the Russian people - we will deftly and imperceptibly cultivate all this, all this will bloom in full bloom .
And only a few, very few, will guess or even understand what is happening. But we will put such people in a helpless position, turn them into a laughing stock, find a way to slander them and declare them the scum of society. We will tear out spiritual roots, vulgarize and destroy the foundations of folk morality. We will shatter thus, generation after generation. We will take on people from childhood and adolescence, we will always place the main emphasis on youth, we will begin to corrupt, corrupt, corrupt them. We will make cynics, vulgarities, and cosmopolitans out of them.
This is how we will do it.

A. Dulles. “Reflections on the implementation of the American post-war doctrine against the USSR,” 1945.

Margaret Thatcher:
(Report on the collapse of the USSR, USA, Houston, 11.1991)

The Soviet Union was a country that posed a serious threat to the Western world. I'm not talking about a military threat. In essence, she was not there. Our countries are quite well armed, including with nuclear weapons.

I mean the economic threat. Thanks to planned policies and a unique combination of moral and material incentives, the Soviet Union managed to achieve high economic indicators. The percentage of growth in the gross national product was approximately twice as high as in our countries. If we take into account the enormous natural resources of the USSR, then with rational management of the economy, the Soviet Union had very real opportunities to oust us from world markets.
Therefore, we have always taken actions aimed at weakening the economy of the Soviet Union and creating internal difficulties for it.

Crimes of the USA (USA - gendarme "democracy") part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KRhE33_QZY

THE DARK SIDE OF AMERICA and ITS CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY and HUMANITY
And although we regularly stigmatize other states as rogue states, we ourselves have become the biggest rogue state. We do not respect treaties, we disregard international courts, and we strike wherever we please at will. We give orders to the UN, but we don't pay membership fees. We complain about terrorism, but our empire (USA) has become the most daring terrorist today.
American writer Gore Vidal. “Why do they hate us” Moscow 2003

Excerpts from books, analytical articles, collections of facts about America and its little secrets.
Here are some of them:
- US cooperation with the Nazis;
- financing of terrorists;
- “lost” Boeing at the Pentagon September 11, 2001;
- business ties between Bush and bin Laden;
- various war crimes from the genocide of Indians to Iraq;
- prohibited experiments on people;
- political assassinations ordered by the United States;
- American participation in the collapse of the USSR and subversive activities against Russia;
- hundreds of thousands of slaves in America;
- the colossal US prison system, the largest and most capacious in the world;
- terrorist training at the School of the Americas, Georgia;
- purchase of internal organs of children from Russia and other poor countries;
- economic strangulation of dozens of countries, responsibility for the death of tens of millions of people from hunger and disease, etc. and so on.

Quote:
Ukrainian nationalists in the service of the CIA, Operation Belladonna and the Cold War
The history of the Cold War, which is studied in universities and research institutes in the West, has been the topic of numerous books and articles by historians and journalists. These publications exposed many of the secret anti-Soviet operations financed by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during this era. However, these publications did not sufficiently highlight the role played by a Ukrainian-American organization called Prolog Research and Publishing Inc., which existed from 1952 to 1988.

Reflections on a New Order of International Plunder

It turns out that the UN, the Security Council, NATO, the system of international treaties, and the Hague Court are just instruments for the robbery of the weak by the strong. It turns out that all this freedom of speech, all these Nobel Peace Prizes and all this culture are used only as an excuse to kill in the name of humanism, to call the one who defends himself an aggressor and to rain down bombs on the victims, while declaring at the same time the intention to save them. It turns out that capitalism exists by robbing its own people through financial fraud, and the people of other countries through armed robbery.

INDIAN GENOCIDE in the USA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0WDp6RP6WM&spfreload=10

The USA is a global evil empire or a standard of democracy;
- Scam of the Millennium. How American financiers deceived the whole world;
- Criminal springboard. How, after World War II, the United States suddenly became rich;
- Goodbye America! Why are the descendants of the Indians sharpening the ax of a new war;
- Discrimination and deportation. How the white gentlemen drove the Indians from their fertile lands;
- Democratic genocide. 10 American ways to destroy the enemy;
- Washing the soul. Why Americans are the richest, but not the smartest people;
- Dividing strip. Why are US cities divided into white neighborhoods and colored neighborhoods and everyone else?
- Feast in Time of Plague. For whom are dead zones created in the USA?

A complete list of all war crimes of the United States of America since 1622
“In order to assert and maintain its “right” to exploit other peoples, America regularly resorts to the use of extreme forms of violence, and above all military violence. Here is a list of known armed interventions and other crimes. Of course, it cannot lay claim to absolute completeness, but a more complete one does not exist.

The Jewish lobby in the United States controls the foreign policy of the “superpower” in the interests of Zionism
Jews rule America, forcing the “world gendarme” to carry out Israeli orders to the detriment of American interests. Anyone who tries to unmask the Jewish lobby in the US is harassed, intimidated and eliminated...

Http://news-usa.ru-an.info//----------/

Once upon a time we did not dare to rustle even in a whisper. Now we write and read Samizdat, and when we meet each other in the smoking rooms of the research institute, we complain from the bottom of our hearts: what can we do? They They won’t play tricks wherever they drag us! And unnecessary cosmic boasting during the ruin and poverty of the house; and strengthening long-distance savage regimes; and inciting civil wars; and recklessly raised Mao Zedong (at our expense) - and us they will chase him, and he will have to go, where can he go? and they judge whoever they want, and drive the healthy into the insane - all “they”, and we are powerless.

It has already reached the bottom, the general spiritual destruction has already descended on all of us, and the physical one is about to flare up and burn both us and our children - and we still smile cowardly and babble tongue-tied:

- How can we interfere? We don't have the strength. We have become so hopelessly dehumanized that for today’s modest feeding trough we will give all our principles, our souls, all the efforts of our ancestors, all the opportunities for our descendants - just not to upset our fragile existence. We have no strength, no pride, no warmth left. We are not even afraid of universal atomic death, we are not afraid of the third world war (maybe we’ll hide in a crack) - we are only afraid of the steps of civil courage! We just don’t want to break away from the herd, don’t take a step alone - and suddenly find ourselves without white loaves, without a gas water heater, without Moscow registration.

Just as they drilled into us at political circles, it has become ingrained in us, it’s comfortable to live, it’s good for the rest of our lives: the environment, social conditions, you can’t jump out of them, being determines consciousness, what do we have to do with it? we can't do anything.

And we can - All! – but we lie to ourselves to reassure ourselves. It’s not “they” who are to blame for everything - ourselves, only We!

They will object: but you really can’t think of anything! Our mouths are gagged, they don’t listen to us, they don’t ask us. How can we get them to listen to us?

It is impossible to convince them.

It would be natural to re-elect them! – but there are no re-elections in our country.

In the West, people know strikes, protest demonstrations, but we are too overwhelmed, we are afraid of it: how is it to suddenly give up work, how is it to suddenly go out into the street?

Still, other fatal paths, tried out over the last century in the bitter Russian history, are especially not for us, and indeed, there is no need! Now, when all their axes have been cut, when everything that was sown has come up, we can see how lost, how lost those young, arrogant people who thought of making the country just and happy through terror, a bloody uprising and civil war. No, thank you, fathers of enlightenment! Now we know that the vileness of the methods is reflected in the vileness of the results. Let our hands be clean!

So is the circle closed? And is there really no way out? And all we can do is wait inactively: suddenly something happens itself?

But it will never get away from us itself, if we all recognize, glorify and strengthen it all our days, if we do not push away at least from its most sensitive point.

From - lies.

When violence bursts into peaceful human life, its face glows with self-confidence, it carries the flag and shouts: “I am Violence! Disperse, make way - I’ll crush you!” But violence quickly ages, in a few years it is no longer self-confident, and in order to hold on, to look decent, it certainly calls on Lies as its allies. For: violence has nothing to hide behind except lies, and lies can only be maintained by violence. And not every day, not every shoulder does violence lay its heavy paw: it demands from us only submission to lies, daily participation in lies - and this is all loyalty.

And here lies the most neglected, simplest, most accessible key to our liberation: personal non-participation in lies! Let the lie cover everything, let the lie control everything, but let us insist on the smallest things: let it rule not through me!

And this is a cut in the imaginary ring of our inaction! – the easiest for us and the most destructive for lies. For when people recoil from a lie, it simply ceases to exist. Like an infection, it can only exist in humans.

We are not called upon, we are not mature enough to go to the square and shout the truth, to express out loud what we think - it’s not necessary, it’s scary. But at least let's refuse to say what Not we think!

This is our path, the easiest and most accessible given our sprouted organic cowardice, much easier (it’s scary to say) civil disobedience according to Gandhi.

Our way: do not knowingly support lies in anything!. Having realized where the border of lies is (for everyone it is still visible differently), - retreat from this gangrene border! Do not glue the dead bones and scales of Ideology, do not sew together rotten rags - and we will be amazed at how quickly and helplessly lies will fall, and what should be naked will appear naked to the world.

So, through our timidity, let everyone choose: whether he remains a conscious servant of lies (oh, of course, not out of inclination, but to feed his family, to raise children in the spirit of lies!), or the time has come for him to shake himself off as an honest man, worthy of respect and children their own and their contemporaries. And from that day on he:

- in the future he will not write, sign, or print in any way a single phrase that, in his opinion, distorts the truth;

- he will not express such a phrase either in a private conversation or in public, either on his own, or from a cheat sheet, or in the role of an agitator, teacher, educator, or in a theatrical role;

– painterly, sculpturally, photographically, technically, musically will not depict, will not accompany, will not broadcast a single false thought, a single distortion of the truth that distinguishes;

– will not give, either verbally or in writing, a single “guiding” quote to please, for insurance, for the success of his work, if the quoted thought is not completely shared or it does not apply exactly here;

– will not allow himself to be forced to go to a demonstration or rally if it is against his desire and will; will not pick up, will not raise a banner, a slogan that he does not fully share;

– will not allow himself to be driven into a meeting where forced, distorted discussion of the issue is expected;

- will immediately leave a meeting, meeting, lecture, performance, film show as soon as he hears lies, ideological nonsense or shameless propaganda from the speaker;

- will not subscribe to or buy at retail a newspaper or magazine where information is distorted and essential facts are hidden.

We have, of course, not listed all possible and necessary evasions from lies. But the one who begins to purify himself will easily discern other cases with a purified gaze.

Yes, at first it will not be equal. Someone will lose their job for a while. For young people who want to live in truth, this will greatly complicate their young life at the beginning: after all, the answered lessons are filled with lies, one must choose. But there is no loophole left for anyone who wants to be honest: no day will any of us, even in the safest technical sciences, avoid at least one of the steps mentioned - towards the truth or towards lies; towards spiritual independence or spiritual servility. And the one who lacks the courage even to defend his soul - let him not be proud of his progressive views, do not boast that he is an academician or a people's artist, an honored figure or a general - so let him say to himself: I am a cattle and a coward, I as long as it's nourishing and warm.

Even this path - the most moderate of all the paths of resistance - will not be easy for those of us who have stayed too long. But how much easier is self-immolation or even a hunger strike: the flames will not engulf your body, your eyes will not burst from the heat, and there will always be black bread with clean water for your family.

Betrayed by us, deceived by us, the great people of Europe - the Czechoslovakians - really didn’t show us how an unprotected chest can stand up even against tanks, if it has a worthy heart?

Will it be a difficult journey? – but the easiest one possible. A difficult choice for the body, but the only one for the soul. It’s not an easy path, but we already have people, even dozens of them, who have endured all these points for years and live in truth.

So: not to be the first to take this path, but to join! The easier and shorter this path will be for all of us, the more friendly and densely we step on it! There will be thousands of us - and they won’t be able to do anything with anyone. There will be tens of thousands of us - and we will not recognize our country!

If we are cowardly, then it’s enough to complain that someone doesn’t let us breathe - we don’t let ourselves! Let's hunker down some more, wait, and our biologist brothers will help us bring closer the reading of our thoughts and the alteration of our genes.

If in this we are cowardly, then we are insignificant, hopeless, and this is Pushkin’s contempt for us:

Why do the herds need the gifts of freedom?
.........................
Their inheritance from generation to generation
A yoke with rattles and a whip.

Brief explanation by N. D. Solzhenitsyna:

This appeal was prepared during 1972 and 1973 and was originally intended as a call for a campaign of ideological disobedience (instead of civil disobedience). This task was then abandoned as premature, and the appeal took the form of a more personal and moral appeal. The text was ready by September 1973, and the author intended to publish it simultaneously with the “Letter to the Leaders.” When the situation worsened in January 1974, after the publication of The Gulag Archipelago, the text of the appeal was placed in several secret places with the agreement that in the event of the author’s arrest, it would be released within a day, without waiting for any further confirmation. And so it happened. On February 13, 1974, the text was transferred to Samizdat and to the West. Included in the samizdat collection “Live not by lies” (later published in Paris: YMCA-press, 1975). The appeal was first published in London, Daily Express, 18.2.1974. Following this, repeatedly in Russian in the emigrant press and in many European languages. At home, it was first published in the Kyiv large-circulation “Working Word”, October 18, 1988. Then - in the magazine “The XX Century and the World”, 1989, No. 2. Later in “Our Contemporary”, 1989, No. 9 and in “Komsomolskaya Pravda”, 1.9.1990. Subsequently - in many other publications.

One of the most famous essays by Alesandr Solzhenitsyn, an appeal to the intelligentsia. It was first published after the writer's arrest in 1974.

Don't live by lies

Once upon a time we did not dare to rustle even in a whisper. Now we write and read Samizdat, and when we meet each other in the smoking rooms of the research institute, we complain from the bottom of our hearts: why don’t they play tricks on us, wherever they drag us! And unnecessary cosmic boasting during the ruin and poverty of the house; and strengthening long-distance savage regimes; and inciting civil wars; and they recklessly raised Mao Tse-tung (at our expense) - and they will drive us after him, and we will have to go, where can we go? and they judge whoever they want, and drive the healthy into the insane - all “they”, and we are powerless.

It has already reached the bottom, the general spiritual destruction has already descended upon us all, and the physical one is about to flare up and burn us and our children - and we still smile cowardly and babble tongue-tied:

- How can we interfere? We don't have the strength.

We have become so hopelessly dehumanized that for today’s modest feeding trough we will give all our principles, our souls, all the efforts of our ancestors, all the opportunities for our descendants - just not to upset our fragile existence. We have no strength, no pride, no warmth left. We’re not even afraid of general atomic death, we’re not afraid of a third world war (maybe we’ll hide in a crack) - we’re only afraid of the steps of civic courage! We just don’t want to break away from the herd, don’t take a step alone - and suddenly find ourselves without white loaves, without a gas water heater, without Moscow registration.

And we can - All! — but we lie to ourselves to reassure ourselves. It’s not “they” who are to blame for everything - ourselves, only We!

They will object: but you really can’t think of anything! Our mouths are gagged, they don’t listen to us, they don’t ask us. How can we get them to listen to us?

It is impossible to convince them. It would be natural to re-elect them! — but there are no re-elections in our country.

In the West, people know strikes, protest demonstrations, but we are too overwhelmed, we are afraid of it: how does it feel to suddenly give up work, how does it feel to suddenly go out into the street?

Photo: Vladimir Sychev

So is the circle closed? And there really is no way out? And all we can do is wait inactively: what if something happens on its own? But it will never come unstuck from us on its own, if we all recognize it, glorify and strengthen it all day, if we do not push away at least from its most sensitive point.

From - lies.

When violence bursts into peaceful human life, its face glows with self-confidence, it carries the flag and shouts: “I am Violence! Disperse, make way - I’ll crush you!” But violence quickly ages, in a few years - it is no longer self-confident, and in order to hold on, to look decent, it certainly calls on Lies as its allies. For: violence has nothing to hide behind except lies, and lies can only be maintained by violence. And not every day, not every shoulder does violence lay its heavy paw: it demands from us only submission to lies, daily participation in lies - and this is all loyalty.

And here lies the neglected by us, the simplest, most accessible key to our liberation: personal non-participation in lies! Let the lie cover everything, let the lie control everything, but let us insist on the smallest things: let it rule not through me!

And this is a cut in the imaginary ring of our inaction! - the easiest for us and the most destructive for lies. For when people recoil from a lie, it simply ceases to exist. Like an infection, it can only exist in humans.

We are not called upon, we are not mature enough to go to the square and shout the truth, to express out loud what we think - it’s not necessary, it’s scary. But at least let’s refuse to say what we don’t think!

This is our path, the easiest and most accessible given our sprouted organic cowardice, much easier (it’s scary to say) civil disobedience according to Gandhi.

Our way: do not consciously support lies in anything! Having realized where the border of lies is (it is still visible differently for everyone), retreat from this gangrene border! Do not glue the dead bones and scales of Ideology, do not sew together rotten rags - and we will be amazed at how quickly and helplessly lies will fall, and what should be naked will appear naked to the world.

Photo: Vladimir Sychev

- in the future he will not write, sign, or print in any way a single phrase that, in his opinion, distorts the truth;

- he will not express such a phrase either in a private conversation or in public, either on his own, or from a cheat sheet, or in the role of an agitator, teacher, educator, or in a theatrical role;

- pictorially, sculpturally, photographically, technically, musically will not depict, will not accompany, will not broadcast a single false thought, a single distortion of the truth that distinguishes;

- will not give, either verbally or in writing, a single “guiding” quote to please, for insurance, for the success of his work, if the quoted thought is not completely shared or it does not apply exactly here;

- will not allow himself to be forced to go to a demonstration or rally if it is against his desire and will; will not pick up, will not raise a banner, a slogan that he does not fully share;

- will not allow himself to be driven into a meeting where forced, distorted discussion of the issue is expected;

- will immediately leave a meeting, meeting, lecture, performance, film show as soon as he hears lies, ideological nonsense or shameless propaganda from the speaker;

- will not subscribe to or buy at retail a newspaper or magazine where information is distorted and essential facts are hidden.

We have, of course, not listed all possible and necessary evasions from lies. But the one who begins to purify himself will easily discern other cases with a purified gaze.

Yes, at first it will not be equal. Someone will lose their job for a while. For young people who want to live in truth, this will greatly complicate their young life at the beginning: after all, the answered lessons are filled with lies, one must choose. But there is no loophole left for anyone who wants to be honest: no day will any of us, even in the safest technical sciences, avoid at least one of the steps mentioned - towards the truth or towards lies; towards spiritual independence or spiritual servility. And the one who lacks the courage even to defend his soul - let him not be proud of his progressive views, do not boast that he is an academician or a people's artist, an honored figure or a general - then let him say to himself: I am a cattle and a coward, I as long as it’s nourishing and warm.

Betrayed by us, deceived by us, the great people of Europe - the Czechoslovakians - really didn’t show us how an unprotected chest can stand up even against tanks, if it has a worthy heart?

Will it be a difficult journey? - but the easiest one possible. A difficult choice for the body, but the only one for the soul. It’s not an easy path, but we already have people, even dozens of them, who have endured all these points for years and live in truth.

If we are cowardly, then it’s enough to complain that someone doesn’t let us breathe - we don’t let ourselves! Let us hunker down some more, wait, and our biologist brothers will help us bring closer the reading of our thoughts and the alteration of our genes.

If we are cowardly in this, then we are insignificant, hopeless, and this is Pushkin’s contempt for us:

Why do the herds need the gifts of freedom?

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Their inheritance from generation to generation

A yoke with rattles and a whip.