“[We] are caught in a whirlwind. But it is during such trials that the highest gifts of the human spirit are manifested. If we perish and lose this world, the fault will be ours alone.”
Aleksandr (Alexander) Solzhenitsyn
Russian novelist, historian, and fierce critic of Communism, who spent 11 years in labor camps and exile for criticizing Joseph Stalin.
(1918 - 2008)