Solzhenitsyn's 'Warning To The West' is a prophetic gift to the U.S. on its imminent 250 year birthday.

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Warning to the West ($14 paperback) contains four or five speeches. Two are to U.S. labor unions (one being George Meany's AFL-CIO -- Solzhenitsyn identifies with the working class ), one is to the US Congress, one is on the BBC, and one is an interview.

While Timothy Snyder and Michael McFaul are Russia experts in our eyes, Solzhenitsyn hugs tightly our mind, heart and soul to get us to pay attention to the disguises and violence that the West has naively believed would go away with the "right manipulations."
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn's prophetic warnings from the tomb (as Soviet citizen, prisoner, world class writer and Nobel Prize winner) come from a longer term wisdom of the 125 years of assault on the West, and why that violence will continue until the West resets itself to be consistently hard against it.

Solzhenitsyn says that he understands (even 50 years ago) the burdens the U.S. has born, the tiredness and darkness we feel. Yet what we feel today, imo, is nothing compared to the actual darkness of our children's real futures will be if we don't want to understand or fight against the evils that our "if you can keep it" forebears and children and sister countries look to us to fight. We can take breaks but we can never stop. Goodness beats power.

Maybe as you read the word Communist, mentally (think of a relevant current context) replace it with the word fascism, and you can feel how what he warns about is what we face, and that if Americans don't fight to the death as our forefathers did -- because they absolutely knew "good" and "evil" -- the United States will succumb, as Russia, China, Korea have, to actually being a totalitarian police state while violent, evil owners call the United States something else.

The latest issue of Mother Jones has an excellent article on Maxwell Frost who says, "Get Caught Fighting." Amen.

I cannot highly recommend this book enough.