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“Western thinking has become conservative:
the world situation should stay as it is at any cost;
there should be no changes. ....
The communist regime in the East could stand and grow due to the enthusiastic support
from an enormous number of Western intellectuals who felt a kinship and refused to see
communism's crimes. And when they no longer could do so, they tried to justify them. In
our Eastern countries, communism has suffered a complete ideological defeat; it is zero
and less than zero. But Western intellectuals still look at it with interest and with
empathy, and this is precisely what makes it so immensely difficult for the West to
withstand the East.”
[Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn at the Commencement, 8 June 1978, Harvard University]

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream.
It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same,
or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children
and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
President Ronald Reagan

Solzhenitsyn says it better then me.
When I was listening to Obama speaking yesterday it felt like I was listening to my high school history teacher in the USSR who of course was the secretary of the school teachers communist organization. It is insulting and ridiculous.
I bet it was not his speech writer, but Obama himself who put the Great Patriotic War in his prepared remarks.

The Russian people were valiant and resourceful; their troubled monarchy was eclipsed by marxists rather more easily than our government, no doubt due to our faith, unity and capitalistic burgeoning economy. The Russian Orthodox church didn’t have the fire to withstand the onslaught, yet it survived vestigially.

100 years later, nearly, we face the same music. the engine of economic growth is faltering, the church is a quaint memory for much of the populace. We are now ripe for the harvest.