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

But this whole process of our liberation,
which obviously will entail social
transformations, is slower than the first one -
the process of concessions. Over there, when we
see these concessions, we are frightened. Why so
quickly? Why so precipitously? Why yield several
countries a year?
I started by saying that you are the allies
of our liberation movement in the Communist
countries. And I call upon you: let us think
together and try to see how we can adjust the
relationship between these two processes. Whenever
you help the persons persecuted in the Soviet
Union, you not only display magnanimity and
nobility, you're defending not only them but
yourselves as well. You're defending your own
future.
So let us try and see how far we can go to
stop this senseless and immoral process of endless
concessions to the aggressor - these clever legal
arguments for why we should give up one country
after another. Why must we hand over to Communist
totalitarianism more and more technology -
complex, delicate, developed technology which it
needs for armaments and for crushing its own
citizens? If we can at least slow down that
process of concessions, if not stop it all
together - and make it possible for the process of
liberation to continue in the Communist countries
- ultimately these two processes will yield us our
future.
On our crowded planet there are no longer any
internal affairs. The Communist leaders say,
"Don't interfere in our internal affairs. Let us
strangle our citizens in peace and quiet." But I
tell you: Interfere more and more. Interfere as
much as you can. We beg you to come and interfere.
Understanding my own task in the same way I have
perhaps interfered today in your internal affairs,
or at least touched upon them, and I apologize for
it. I have traveled a lot around the United States
and this has been added to my earlier
understanding of it; what I have heard from
listening to the radio, from talking to
experienced persons.
America - in me and among my friends and
among people who think the way I do over there,
among all ordinary Soviet citizens - evokes a sort
of mixture of feelings of admiration and of
compassion. Admiration at the fact of your own