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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's conversations on diverse topics, broadcast every two weeks on Russia's Channel 1, from April to September 1995. {Russian audio with English subtitles.}

[@joepalooka2145]

Russians should be proud Solzhenitsyn is one of their own. Like many people around the world who are not Russian, I revere this great man. His enormous integrity and intelligence made him unique in the world. But above all is his towering greatness as a writer. I read his books with a sense of amazement and awe at the way he thinks about and describes his characters, and pulls us totally into the world they live in. He was a true giant and people like him only come around every century or two.

[@rerite2]

Just to survive WWII as a front-line soldier against the Nazis. Then he survives the Gulag. Then he survives the catastrophe of literary success. Then he survives cancer. One tough guy.

[@lessthanpinochet]

The Russians are a tough breed for sure. High pain threshold.

[@jegesmedve2276]

God bless this Noble Man.

[@husham6075]

Rest in peace solzhenitsyn

[@nale_7715]

it's almost unbelievable how things have not changed at all

[@TheTalemaster]

Is it unbelievable? Not if you understand banks and their profiteers. Some form of collectivist control is always happening; Communism was merely the most efficient yet and localising the manifold individualities of personhood, industry and expression to enrich the wickedly prescient and greedy.

[@diegom3476]

@@TheTalemaster Communism was merely the most efficient yet? Well, I think you don't read history books

[@Harriet1822]

Thank you for making this material available.

[@pushkin21ol]

Нет пророка в своём отечестве... Больно смотреть, что сейчас происходит с моей любимой Россией. Слава богу, что осталось литературное и аудиовизуальное наследство Солженицина. Светлейший человек, который как никто любил Россию и свободу.

[@kbeetles]

I wish I had properly learnt Russian at school - but in my native ( socialist) Hungary it used to be compulsory at school, which meant we all hated it. What a shame! Solzhenitsyn is a hero, a wise man - we desperately need wise men and women in this upside down, perilous world! .... and Russain is a great language!

[@Mazurka1001]

20th century Dostoevsky. I am proud to have read almost all his works, except the last one. Ever finished Oak and the Calf - also brilliant. Solzh is a moral titan of the past century. 🇷🇺🌹🕊👏🏻

[@raystargazer7468]

I've been reading him too. One of my favourite writer. Russians can be proud of their writers!

[@iivaridark6850]

He has so wise thoughts and words. Funny thing so many hate Solzhenitsyn - but he seems to have been a real patriot! They shouldn't hate him or his legacy...

[@gulag19]

Of course he is hated by many, some hate Truth, some others won't take it, they are handicapped, impaired by their ideology which is more precious to them than any other thing, no matter what. It hurts to realise that you've been totally wrong for years in your life. I know well. For some is like leaving a sect. This human being, this man is a free, magnificent soul. One of the "indispensable " ones. Спасибо огромное, Господа Солженицын.

[@flagflow1232]

Because they hate the truth, they hate the ones who speak it.

[@Sam-go3mb]

Those that feed in darkness, hate the light that is the truth.

[@NotMarkKnopfler]

To be hated by communists is the highest compliment. He would wear it as a badge of honour.

[@bonniebluebell5940]

An amazing author and great man. His words ring true now more than ever.

[@johnday2971]

One of the great geniuses of the 20th century.

[@philthegorilla]

Just finished "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" and now diving into the complete/updated "In the First Circle." "One day" reminded me of Viktor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning" in many ways, although "One Day" comes much closer to identifying the foundational problem with man's hopeless state. I am now keenly interested in Russian history and particularly the multi-generational fall out from the Bolshevik Revolution and Mr. Solzhenitsyn's resonating message, "Men have forgotten God." I too, have heard modern Christian teachers reference Solzhenitsyn on may occasions and so my curiosity to learn more was piqued.

[@elwingw4321]

Phil Downen there is also a movie of that book made in Norway. Starring Tom Courtney. Riveting.

[@johnb3289]

Phil, heed not the Mephistophelian (when you finish "The First Circle" you'll know what I mean) message that Sisyphus and Kierkegaard and Camus and Sartre are correct - that the world is pointless and absurd. Franl holds the key to life -- pursue meaningful goals. LOVE "The First Circle. Reading Cancer Ward now. Solzhenitsyn's patronymic Isaievich says it all, for he was a prophet of God and justice and morality to his tortured generation.

[@elwingw4321]

I am so glad people have not forgotten him. In 1978 as a college grad I drove my volkswagon all night from Nj to find his house in cavendish vt.high on a mountain in complete privacy the campground director pointed me in the direction and did not lead me astray as so many in that town did to protect his privacy., I was fortunate that his wife Natasha drove out the huge gates. Saw me parked there, and allowed me to leave solzenitsyn a letter of thankfulness for his works. Later I discovered ,he never heated his house all winter. And many ex prisoners from the gulag were financially supported by the Solzhenitsyns . he also refused to participate in developing a voice recognition technology that would betray other Russians and ease his prison conditions.. He is a moral giant and Americans started to dismiss him with his book the red wheel.thank God He is not forgotten today. God bless you! Also there are “dialogues with Solzenitsyn” on KZbin when he was in Vermont.so insightful about this great man.

[@minnowpd]

I like how he throws the bucket of water on the path to the guardhouse, brilliant , its 27 below.

[@Vit1969]

Good old man.

[@NotMarkKnopfler]

He was 77 years old when this was recorded. This wise, gentle man led the hardest of lives, simply for telling the truth. If ever anyone has earned the right to rest in eternal peace, it is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

[@Gersberms]

He was one of a kind. Literally, tens of millions of people probably saw what he saw, and he's the only one who stood up and did what he did, as effectively as he did. I'm reading the 3rd part of Gulag Archipelago and I'm so glad I was told about it!

[@theHermitcrabshow]

Some great thoughts... Im a very glad I stumbled on his work... Ravi Zacharias talks about him often...and then I thought who is this guy...? Now I know. After diving into Gulag Archipelago... hope more people get to know his story and his thoughts.

[@danielmccurdy9948]

@@morriscat3 In my opinion, Ravi Zacharias is a genius. But I didn't hear him mention Alexander Solzhenitsyn in any of his lectures.

[@anonanonym9872]

I still remember how he ironically depicts the tragedy of constructing White Sea canal. He saw only 2 ships for a day, while hundreds of thousands lives had fallen for that.

[@tomdip2094]

You undersell that passage. It was two ships, with identical cargo, one going up, the other down, therefore cancelling each other out.

[@adamfox1669]

Thanks so much for posting these. What an amazing mind.

[@jameslabs1]

Thanks

[@valhalla2957]

Oh man, this is a treat! Thank you!!!!

[@vkorchnoifan]

Anyone who is in a politically powerful position and abuses it is destined for damnation.

[@gulag19]

And yes, as Harriet1822 says, thank you so much for making this available.

[@yevgeniyzharinov7473]

I like him.

[@prayunceasingly2029]

All the questions he raises which Russia failed to meet in those days have also not been met by the Canadian government of the last 10 years in my opinion.

[@nicholasengel6200]

Thank you for Sharing this valuable video

[@jamesandrew62]

He has some detailed books too, gulag archipelago & a day in the life of isanisavich

[@basileusmegas7667]

Voici un homme...

[@ramaponzi]

read "200 hundered years together by Solzhenitsyn" and learn why that war today

[@willynilly570]

"Who will ever let them?"

[@brianbozo2447]

Emotional intelligent person who survived the horrors of Stalin

[@raystargazer7468]

I hope russians are listening to him. Read his books.

[@vrijbuiterspartei2715]

Russians freed my grandfather. He was freed on the morning he would be executed. He was in Berlin, in Plötzensee.

[@madhaze0126]

Wow.

[@Esb1120]

I would love to use the subtitle of this video to translate the content to Portuguese.

[@Sohave]

It would have worked wonders if Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn had the chance to steer Russia for a few years... But sadly politics is a hostile field for honest people and tend to attract crooks more than competent people with actual knowledge of how policies impact. Interesting to see how those particular Russian subjects also translates into the troubles in the west. I am here especially thinking about the low birth rates and the school reforms. Demographic decline and insufficient education is a dangerous illness that has befallen much of the western world.

[@johncitizen3227]

💓🙏👌

[@raygon8]

Today in USA , if your a patriot they call you a fascist

[@Lolslos90]

By whom?

[@multitopic1908]

Solzhenitsyn's influence lives on through Jordan B. Peterson!

[@jeffreyestes200]

@TheoXaris Strange enough, I was once in the same room with this man. But I thought nothing of it, was too young and stupid to even understand his significance. Jordan Peterson is also a great speaker.

[@anaranjadisimo]

something about Peterson... that I don't like

[@seansmith3058]

Who mangles him.

[@pff1974]

why not listen to Tony Robbins if that's what you're looking for

[@WillJacobsLovesFilm]

Sustenance in an age of decadence.

[@helenorsanic7921]

Do you have the written translations to this?

[@SolzhenitsynCenter]

Sorry-we are not quite certain what you mean. Solzhenitsyn is speaking in Russian, and the English translations are indeed provided as subtitles to this video.

[@GalokVonGreshnak]

@@SolzhenitsynCenter I believe he meant written on paper or typed on an online format

[@tytyvyllus8298]

@@SolzhenitsynCenter I would guess she means a transcript you can read as a document.

[@SolzhenitsynCenter]

If you contact us by email, we can provide you with a transcript.

[@helenorsanic7921]

@@SolzhenitsynCenter thank you, I will. Today his words are even more significant than ever. Before one knew who the enemy was and what they stood for. Today it’s not quite as obvious.

[@profipix]

At 28:48 - doesn't this sound like USA nowadays?

[@-a5919]

Nah USA has way too much national pride that is totally unfounded. No other nation on earth is prouder of its country for no good reason really.

[@deadcarnivora8648]

Cool clip of this wonderful guy does he have a wife? I hope he's happy finally he deserves it

[@jeffreyestes200]

He died over a decade ago.