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  • Live Not By Lies - (last underground essay by Solzhenitsyn, written on his native soil)

    05/27/2005 1:15:06 PM PDT · by CHARLITE · 18 replies · 519+ views
    AUGUSTINE CLUB,COLUMBIA,EDU ^ | February 18, 1974 | Alexander Solzhenitsyn
    Following is the full text of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's essay ``Live Not By Lies.'' It is perhaps the last thing he wrote on his native soil [before the collapse of the Soviet Union] and circulated among Moscow's intellectuals [at that time]. The essay is dated Feb. 12, the day that secret police broke into his apartment and arrested him. The next day he was exiled to West Germany. At one time we dared not even to whisper. Now we write and read samizdat, and sometimes when we gather in the smoking room at the Science Institute we complain frankly to one...