Alexander Solzhenitsyn and the USA

Fr. Carr discusses the Wall Street Journal's Take on Solzhenitsyn in light of his words to the Harvard University community in 1978. Recorded 08/05/08
WSJ http://online.wsj.com

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News & Politics

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• Solzhenitsyn
• Harvard
• intelligentsia
• WSJ
• Catholic
• communism
• commentary
• analysis

[JosephPaul2]

Thank you for posting this video, Father. I go to the University of Dallas, and I recently took a class on Marxism and Russia. The last two books we read for that class were the Gulag Archipelago and the First Cricle. These books affected my thinking forever. I find myself reflecting on them constantly. I have asked God to allow me to remember the Gulag every day of my life for as long as I live. I think if I can do that, I will be genuinely wise.

[stbenedictsomerville]

Your Welcome. May I also, therefore, recommend to you He Leadeth Me by Fr. Walter Czizek. A fascinating story of a priest who was a prisoner in the GULAG's I use it often in my preaching.

[stbenedictsomerville]

Thank you and you sure are right about our need for more like him.

[litlemadguitarist]

@beargrizly67 AND for collaborating with the SS. He actually questioned the USSR "why are we fighting each other if we both stand for the same ideals"

[litlemadguitarist]

Sorry but Alexandr Solzhenitsy n didnt just speak out against the corruption within the regime, but against the Marxist ideologyl! (saying it was purely violent wich it isnt) He was a royalist who also criticised the Spanish social democrat mouvements in Spain during the 70s against for a democracy saying that "theese mouvements are the same that got millions killed in the soviet Union. He was a crook!

[pgg804a]

@topboss It was in literature - in 1970. The speaker is mistaken. It wasn't for peace.

[topboss]

Nobel Peace Prize? I thought it was for literature?

[Fridaey13txhOktober]

Some maniac butchered him, according to militia rapports taken by Russian hackers, his body looked as if it was savaged by a wild animal and pieces of gnawed-on limbs had been flung across the room like garbage. :)

[Fridaey13txhOktober]

Soljenitsyn´s books where the first twilight saga. He was a crook who successfully fucked tens of millions in the ass and got away with it.

[StealthGoblin1]

I'm reading Gulag Archipelago right now. Excellent work. He Leadeth Me by Fr. Walter Czizek is good; I appreciated even more, however, his With God in Russia. Some other good books that reveal the state of life in the gulag: Fr. Arseny, and the sequel book Cloud of Witnesses.

[JosephPaul2]

Thanks Father. I will check that book out for sure. Again, thank you for your work and dedication as a priest. It means a lot to me that there are still men willing to minister to us in Christ's priesthood despite the hostility directed at them by the corrupt secular culture.