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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on Memorial Day

1918–2008 Russia

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At no time has the world been without war. Not in seven or ten or twenty thousand years.

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

The Gulag Archipelago (1973)

Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.

Harvard University address (1978)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.