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Alexander Solzhenitsyn

1918 - 2008

Alexander Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist, historian, and Nobel Prize laureate, best known for his works exposing the Soviet forced labor camp system. His most famous work, "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich," realistically portrayed the harsh conditions endured by prisoners in Stalinist labor camps.

  1. Socialism needs propaganda because reality always ends up contradicting it.

    Alexander SolzhenitsynThe Gulag Archipelago, Volume 1, 1973
    #socialism#propaganda#reality

  2. The simple step of the courageous individual is to not take part in the lie.

    Alexander SolzhenitsynThe Solzhenitsyn Reader, p. 488, 2006
    #courage#truth#integrity

  3. We know they are lying. They know they are lying. They know that we know they are lying. We know that they know that we know they are lying. And still they continue to lie.

    Alexander Solzhenitsyn1978 Templeton Prize Lecture
    #deceit#awareness#hypocrisy