How to Escape From a Sick Society - Academy of Ideas "Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, reflecting on the Soviet Union’s descent into totalitarian rule in the mid-20th century, and all the things

How to Escape From a Sick Society - Academy of Ideas

"Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, reflecting on the Soviet Union’s descent into totalitarian rule in the mid-20th century, and all the things that could have been done to prevent it, wrote the following:

'If… if… We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation … we hurried to submit. We submitted with pleasure! … We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.' (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

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