Yesterday, August 3, Nobel Prize winner novelist and historian Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn passed away at his home from a suspected stroke. The way he fought communist atrocities in former USSR with courage and determination will always be remembered. His most famous work is “The Gulag Archipelago
During his entire life, with a great part of it spent in exile, he never ceased to defend what he believed was right as well as trying to correct what he believed was wrong. One of his most memorable speeches was given on June 8, 1978 at Harvard University, named “A World Split Apart“:
The split in today’s world is perceptible even to a hasty glance. Any of our contemporaries readily identifies two world powers, each of them already capable of entirely destroying the other. However, understanding of the split often is limited to this political conception, to the illusion that danger may be abolished through successful diplomatic negotiations or by achieving a balance of armed forces. The truth is that the split is a much profounder and a more alienating one, that the rifts are more than one can see at first glance. This deep manifold split bears the danger of manifold disaster for all of us, in accordance with the ancient truth that a Kingdom — in this case, our Earth — divided against itself cannot stand.
The video announcing his passing on Russia Today gives a great overview of his life.
