Alexander Solzhenitsyn: prophetic warnings to the West

“Men have forgotten God”

by kathleen

Orthodox Christian author, and Russian dissident, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970. On 10th May 1983, at the ceremony for winning the Templeton Prize, he gave an acceptance speech under the title “Godlessness: the First Step to the Gulag” (that became known as “The Templeton Address”) and was a stirring description of prophetic warnings to the West of the dire consequences that would follow the abandonment of its Christian traditions and heritage. Those like Solzheinitsyn, who had witnessed first-hand the atrocities and terror of communism, understood fully why such evil takes root, how it grows and deceives, and the kind of hell it will ultimately unleash on the innocent and the faithful. Godlessness is always the first step towards tyranny and oppression!

Did the Blessed Virgin Mary not also warn us through the little seers at Fatima in 1917 of the consequences to Mankind if we were to continue to turn away from God?

Regarding atheism, Solzhenitsyn declared:

“More than half a century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of old 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.”

What is more, the events of the Russian Revolution can only be understood now, at the end of the century, against the background of what has since occurred in the rest of the world. What emerges here is a process of universal significance.

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