He has to prove that his every step is well founded and absolutely flawless. Your shortsighted politicians who signed the hasty Vietnam capitulation seemingly gave America a carefree breathing pause; however, ahundredfold Vietnam now looms over you. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either. Many of you have already found out and others will find out in the course of their lives that truth eludes us as soon as our concentration begins to flag, all the while leaving the illusion that we are continuing to pursue it. It provides a rich and representative selection of Solzhenitsyn’s voluminous works. This deep manifold split bears the danger of manifold disaster for all of us, in accordance with the ancient truth that a Kingdom -- in this case, our Earth -- divided against itself cannot stand.There is the concept of the Third World: thus, we already have three worlds. Such social dogmatism leaves us helpless before the trials of our times.Even if we are spared destruction by war, life will have to change in order not to perish on its own. Even those characteristics of your life which I have just enumerated are extremely saddening.A fact which cannot be disputed is the weakening of human personality in the West while in the East it has become firmer and stronger.

refused to see communism's crimes, and when they no longer could do so, they tried to justify these crimes. Actually an outstanding and particularly gifted person who has unusual and unexpected initiatives in mind hardly gets a chance to assert himself; from the very beginning, dozens of traps will be set out for him. Countries are judged on the merit of their progress in this direction. The Western world has lost its civic courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, in each government, in each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations. Some people sincerely wanted all wars to stop just as soon as possible; others believed that there should be room for national, or communist, self-determination in Vietnam, or in Cambodia, as we see today with particular clarity. Yet one would like to ask: According to what law has it been elected and to whom is it responsible?

At first glance it seems an ugly parallel: common traits in the thinking and way of life of today's West and today's East? An oil company is legally blameless when it purchases an invention of a new type of energy in order to prevent its use. Solzhenitsyn’s June 8, 1978, commencement address at Harvard was the most controversial and commented-upon public speech he delivered during his twenty-year exile in the West, for he critiqued the spiritual crisis of both East and West.

Then, however, we turned our backs upon the Spirit and embraced all that is material with excessive and unwarranted zeal. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s  1978 Harvard commencement address was the most controversial and commented-upon public speech he delivered during his exile in the West, for he critiqued the spiritual crisis of both East and West. Is it true that man is above everything? Kennan's advice to his own country -- to begin unilateral disarmament -- belongs to the same category. There have been naive predictions by some American experts who believed that Angola would become the Soviet Union's Vietnam or that Cuban expeditions in Africa would best be stopped by special U.S. courtesy to Cuba. Yet there is a disaster which is already very much with us.

A World Split Apart — Commencement Address Delivered At Harvard University, June 8, 1978 Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn. When a government starts an earnest fight against terrorism, public opinion immediately accuses it of violating the terrorists' civil rights. We cannot avoid revising the fundamental definitions of human life and human society.

One may safely assume that he will start writing the opposite with renewed self-assurance.Because instant and credible information has to be given, it becomes necessary to resort to guesswork, rumors and suppositions to fill in the voids, and none of them will ever be rectified, they will stay on in the readers' memory. (In the process, however, one psychological detail has been overlooked: the constant desire to have still more things and a still better life and the struggle to this end imprint many Western faces with worry and even depression, though it is customary to carefully conceal such feelings.

But there is no awareness of this. It is imperative to review the table of widespread human values. It started modern Western civilization on the dangerous trend of worshiping man and his material needs.Everything beyond physical well-being and the accumulation of material goods, all other human requirements and characteristics of a subtle and higher nature, were left outside the area of attention of state and social systems, as if human life did not have any higher meaning. The communist regime in the East could endure and grow due to the enthusiastic support from an enormous number of Western intellectuals who (feeling the kinship!)