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I guess I didn’t ping you to it... you’re not on my conglomerate ping list. :-D More at the FR link and link there to the whole thing.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4151146/posts?page=500#498
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.”