"Aleksandr I.Solzhenitsyn. Words of Warning to the Western World " - читать интересную книгу автора

law is our human attempt to embody in rules a part
of that moral sphere which is above us. We try to
understand this morality, bring it down to earth
and present it in a form of laws. Sometimes we are
more successful, sometimes less. Sometimes you
actually have a caricature of morality, but
morality is always higher than law. This view must
never be abandoned. We must accept it with heart
and soul.
It is almost a joke now in the western world,
in the 20th century, to use words like "good" and
"evil." They have become almost old-fashioned
concepts, but they are very real and genuine
concepts. These are concepts from a sphere which
is higher than us. And instead of getting involved
in base, petty, shortsighted political
calculations and games we have to recognize that
the concentration of World Evil and the tremendous
force of hatred is there and it's flowing from
there throughout the world. And we have to stand
up against it and not hasten to give to it, give
to it, give to it, everything that it wants to
swallow.
Today there are two major processes occurring
in the world. One is the one which I have just
described to you, which has been in progress more
than 30 years. It is a process of shortsighted
concessions; a process of giving up, and giving up
and giving up and hoping that perhaps at some
point the wolf will have eaten enough.
The second process is one which I consider
the key to everything and which, I will say now,
will bring all of us our future; under the
cast-iron shell of communism - for 20 years in the
Soviet Union and a shorter time in other Communist
countries - there is occurring a liberation of the
human spirit. New generations are growing up which
are steadfast in their struggle with evil; which
are not willing to accept unprincipled
compromises; which prefer to lose everything -
salary, conditions of existence and life itself -
but are not willing to sacrifice conscience; not
willing to make deals with evil.
This process has now gone so far that in the
Soviet Union today, Marxism has fallen so low that
it has become an anecdote, it's simply an object
of contempt. No serious person in our country
today, not even university and high school
students, can talk about Marxism without smiling,
without laughing.