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Emerald Robinson did not write this, it is part of Solzhenitsyn’s speech, I excerpted, click link to read all that she posted.
https://www.emerald.tv/p/solzhenitsyn-predicted-americas-current
Solzhenitsyn Predicted America’s Current Plight in 1983
The celebrated Russian writer’s speech at Templeton University warned the West of its coming communist collapse
EMERALD ROBINSON
Note: The Templeton Prize was awarded to Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in 1983, and it provided an opportunity for the great author to address the problems of the West. What follows are portions of those remarks edited for brevity.
Over half a century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of older people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: “Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.”
Since then I have spent well-nigh 50 years working on the history of our revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval. But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: “Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.”
What is more, the events of the Russian revolution can only be understood now, at the end of the century, against the background of what has since occurred in the rest of the world. What emerges here is a process of universal significance. And if I were called upon to identify briefly the principal trait of the entire twentieth century, here too, I would be unable to find anything more precise and pithy than to repeat once again: “Men have forgotten God.” The failings of human consciousness, deprived of its divine dimension, have been a determining factor in all the major crimes of this century. The first of these was World War I, and much of our present predicament can be traced back to it. It was a war (the memory of which seems to be fading) when Europe, bursting with health and abundance, fell into a rage of self-mutilation which could not but sap its strength for a century or more, and perhaps forever. The only possible explanation for this war is a mental eclipse among the leaders of Europe due to their lost awareness of a Supreme Power above them. Only a godless embitterment could have moved ostensibly Christian states to employ poison gas, a weapon so obviously beyond the limits of humanity.
The same kind of defect, the flaw of a consciousness lacking all divine dimension, was manifested after World War II when the West yielded to the satanic temptation of the “nuclear umbrella.” It was equivalent to saying: Let’s cast off worries, let’s free the younger generation from their duties and obligations, let’s make no effort to defend ourselves, to say nothing of defending others — let’s stop our ears to the groans emanating from the East, and let us live instead in the pursuit of happiness. If danger should threaten us, we shall be protected by the nuclear bomb; if not, then let the world go to hell! The pitifully helpless state to which the contemporary West has sunk is in large measure due to this fatal error: the belief that the only issue is that of nuclear weapons, whereas in reality the defense of peace reposes chiefly on stout hearts and steadfast men.
Only the loss of that higher intuition which comes from God could have allowed the West to accept calmly, after World War I, the protected agony of Russia as she was being torn apart by a band of cannibals, or to accept, after World War II, the similar dismemberment of Eastern Europe. The West did not perceive that this was in fact the beginning of a lengthy process that spells disaster for the whole world; indeed the West has done a good deal to help the process along. Only once in this century did the West gather its strength — for the battle against Hitler. But the fruits of that victory have long since been lost. Faced with cannibalism, our godless age has discovered the perfect anaesthetic — trade! Such is the pathetic pinnacle of contemporary wisdom.
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This post was great! Thank you for all your posts.
here’s the latest episodes of the X22 Report (should be good - moving on to hildabeast & hussein):
Ep. 3064b - The [DS] Corrupt System Is Being Exposed, Focus Now Shifts To [HRC] & [Renegade]
Ep. 3064a - Regulations Of Banks Were Moved To The Fed, The [CB] Was Setup, Restructuring
In your post on Solzhenitsyn, the above phrase jumped out at me; not so much as being a central theme but rather as a portrait of the West's current slippery slope.
This may well define the current stage of the battle. We have failed to train our children to defend against self destruction while bathing them in comfort, ease and prosperity. We have lulled them into believing, perhaps like the Roman baths society, that life is just enjoyment of the bounty bestowed upon them by history.
Our founding fathers never visualized their singular creation in that light. They repeatedly grounded their guiding principles on the Word of God, in fear of God. They warned us that liberty bears responsibility, that liberty must continuously be defended and, if need be, fought for.
The current enemies of freedom abhor that message, suppress those ideas, teach a tactile, seductively intellectual, gospel of self gratification.
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This week in D.C. could start a decisive turn away from the above snares. Tuesday we will begin to discover if we the people have any control over our nation's finances or whether we are aimlessly adrift at the whims of an autocratic government - more than ready to dish up more public financed self gratification (read crumbs).
Wednesday we will begin to discover if our government 'masters' are above our laws, have become a law unto themselves. Do the citizens of America have any authority over the ruling hegemony?
A time to try men's souls.