Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Alexander Solzhenitsyn was born in Russia, DECEMBER 11, 1918. He was arrested for writing a letter criticizing Joseph Stalin and spent 11 years in labor camps. He began writing and eventually received the Nobel Prize for Literature.  Speaking in Washington, D.C., June 30, 1975, Alexander Solzhenitsyn gave a warning to the west:
“In pre-revolutionary Russia…there were attempts of the Tsar’s life…During these years about 17 persons a year were executed…
The Cheka (Communist Secret Police)…in 1918 and 1919…executed, without trial, more than a thousand persons a month!…
At the height of Stalin’s terror in 1937-38…more than 40,000 persons were shot per month!
Here are the figures: 17 a year…1,000 a month, more than 40,000 a month!”   Solzhenitsyn continued:

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