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a harsh winter ahead for the homeless a group of volunteers maybe all that's keeping many in the russian capital alive party has been following a moscow mercy box which brings much needed food and medicine for people on the streets. up next the widow of legendary russian writer alexander solzhenitsyn tells r t how she's keeping his ideas at the forefront of modern thinking. oh yeah no welcome to the. i'll get to know them today my guest is not.

in the truth essentially alexander solzhenitsyn was one of the most famous russian writers and communist regime he passed away in two thousand and eight at the age of eighty nine leaving behind a rich heritage novels and historical works being ousted from the u.s.s.r. by the communist regime the true freedom loving patriot who lived and worked abroad until finally returning to russia in one nine hundred ninety four his wife has always been his best friend and now off to the right is that she manages the foundation how is she promoting her husband's idea today here's the president of the foundation not. on the social need some of the gulag archipelago tells of the repressive machine russia communist leaders try to prevent the book from being published are old but in nine hundred

seventy three the gulag archipelago was printed in paris the full year. to fund to help victims of the soviet regime and their families the u.s.s.r. . eighteen years ago the soldiers from the foundation moved to russia today they continue helping former political prisoners and developing ideas. that's the time in the spello mess isn't it thank you so much for being with us today it's an honor. to the works of alexander solzhenitsyn i remember that when he was alive you plan to publish a complete thirty volume collected works by two thousand and ten which is this year actually. and this year is come internet and was the progress that. well as usual we are late and we will not manage to publish the entire thirty volumes by the end of the year however we've just published another three volumes so you can find

fourteen volumes in bookstores already another two will be ready in a short while with those two the total amount will be sixteen which is after all more than a half there are they are the voice which require a lot of work on them and written comments so i'm hopeful that in three years it will finish in three years so there will still be the same petroleum. content of the collected works was prepared together by me and. it's done exactly as he wanted but there are only complete novels there. it's the most complete edition. the complete works is something a bit different a complete works edition usually contains different versions of novels and unfinished works and there are quite a lot of them but this edition will contain only the items finished while alive you know the words one signed by the author and sent to the publishers right and the

rest are just draft letters and the collected edition no there won't. publish them because he wrote their interests and letters of course you're right he's written hundreds of thousands of various letters they're all interesting like his correspondence with. which is of high literally interest. and then there are individual letters he wrote responding to those people who wrote to him from around the world. some of them a brief correspondence of two or three letters are of immense interest to you. but you know as a rule letters a published sometime later not straight away but after both addressees die. who was mentioned. lived. and well away from russia the russian public phone days. the moment for this question should be addressed directly to me because i was its president

since the first day and i've been working there ever since for he established a foundation during his first days in exile even before his family joined him he donated to the foundation all the money he earned from their gulag archipelago publications in all the world's languages saying that he will never take a dollar or ruble for his book the foundation used to help the people because back then they still were many prisoners as you may remember but now that we don't have the gulag in the sense in which it is listed under lenient and later under stalin the system is no longer there but there are still many people who have been through . labor camps so we help those people now. they're very old many of them could not create a family because they had spent their best years in the labor camps. they are lonely and. they barely need our help they are the most vulnerable category of

people. this is an interesting subject. because how many of those people are. those people i'm sure you know. of course we know them personally dozens hundreds of thousands of them there are thousands of them of course but you see our foundation is private it's a foundation of one person we can't help all of them i do not know the total number we constantly help approximately twenty five hundred people we call pensioners after the name of the book is that we choose those who are in prison for a long time who are in a difficult situation or have no family there are a lot of such people who make no difference between those who live in russia and abroad. it immediately will help all those who were imprisoned by the soviet government will settle so it will help all ex prisoners who are now in ukraine

because extern and the baltic states so you help those abroad to yes abroad in the c.i.s. as well let's see what people abroad know about alexander solzhenitsyn we have we have a poll that we conducted in the streets of washington if you have a hot name i like sanderson's you need some yes. i do know what he wants because he was the president for a while he was a leader who helped open up russia to the west a peace activist. a writer and a. thought leader yes chris i know. it was the advocate the people that we need today people that suffer for our cause and we lost leaders like that we don't have there's also in prison in gulag and so on and suffered enormously being a jew and the rest in what i would ask but he's a man that made history in the previous century and we have anyone this one no not

yet does he mean something she mean something which means everything i'm an advocate myself so for me it's who i look up to i do not in fact i'm bipolar just you know. see how differently people think who aleksandr solzhenitsyn was. but we're not asking russians who faulkner was. i guess we could have received many similar answers do you know russians know solzhenitsyn and his legacy how important is it to them. think it's an option hopelessly i actually am not the right person to answer this question because i no longer consider myself a young person but i know to works by solzhenitsyn one day in the life of on denise rich and maturing this place they are now part of the school curriculum. children read them in the ninth tenth or eleventh grade it's up to the teacher to decide when the from this year and a bridge version of the gulag archipelago was introduced into the school program to

. alexander solzhenitsyn asked me to prepare it a short version has existed for a long time in the us and other countries but the material for bridge meant and the way how it was done are different from what edward erickson did in the u.s. so from now on this book will be studied in comprehensive schools. while in specialist schools it's been studied for a long time already. have a look at a place for sure it's your bridge to the gulag archipelago five. to four times then a little more so this book is a five fold abridged version well for in the. front pages you see it greatly depends on the paid sites. and there are certain rules used by the publishers of books for children. margins and so ones that look at.

the bridge in the book that it's too long that it's for children holds no. chapters in the book as the law is the child the laws matures the law becomes a man which they tell a historic documental and political story of cursive but is. encouraged in the m.g.b. the kid to be. what's in those chapters you can follow the story of how it was established but they did was the same children and many adults don't need to know that now so such chapters could be significantly a bridged though not emitted entirely but there are many interesting chapter. about escapes for example they are very interesting and intriguing not only to see in my head to bridge those two because they take far too many pieces i left in

several stories but in brief in case anyone is interested they can find a full version in any bookstore in the book sells well it is published by several publishers and they've been used agreement every year. when the book was added to the school program but i'm a potent commented on that business is the quotation. without knowing what's in this book we can tell a complete idea about our country and we can barely think about the future and the quote. so do you think this book can really help you understand the country better for you so strong the thing is that at present teachers don't have any leverage to make students read books which they need to if they don't want to they won't read anything but they are no longer required to write essays they have the standard college admission test instead now so if a student doesn't read the book it won't help him it says president of the sultan

it's an foundation not soldiering it's not spotlight will be back shortly after a break so stay with us. i. thank.

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hotel. the. field. the ruben's hotel. welcome back to the time just a reminder that my guest in the studio today is president of the solzhenitsyn foundation. which started talking about the gulag archipelago. did you take into consideration that has been a long while since the book was written. documents and facts which alexander solzhenitsyn could not have been revealed before of course this fact to folks who work you know that there is history and there is literature of the same thing. and

of course. of course numerous open and they're ready called changes which have taken place in russia over the past twenty years and many of us who work quite unsuccessful so we can say that our reformers themselves produce their most aggressive. so many of them think that xander soldier has absolutely wrong figures in his book and that he exaggerated them ten fold this is an outright lie nonsense alexander solzhenitsyn really did not have any official sources they have or inaccessible and continued to be so for many decades after but when axes was opened the state archives of the russian federation together was the who for institution of stanford university issued seven volumes of documents given by the m.g.b. and the interior ministry that disfigures did not contradict was destination's made

by. sympathetic but he didn't that so off course i took it into consideration and i wrote about it. that you've asked me if the book can help children who were born so many years after it happened. i will repeat that it won't help those who won't read it. but to those who read it simply the book will definitely build great help. if you were a school literature. version of facebook for school would be more of history or literature for you if you stored it then yes it's undoubtedly literature there's no two ways about it and that's the only reason why it's powerful if you were with the conclusion. comes to the end of the. historians think. for example nothing of the kind they differ from opinions of those critics who lie ps

ideas client side with the ones of objective historians you won't be able to give me a strong example that i will gladly argue with anyone and provide quotations and prove this to masons that can differ but not figures now there are people who think that the fact that we had labor camps was for the better because without them we would not build trucks and atomic bombs but my argument is that the tomic bomb was created by people who were withdrawn from the gulag at the very last moment and saved from death but if they had not been to the gulag they would have made it even better. to work with alexander solzhenitsyn which i remember being published. reaction to perestroika that is the sole relevant today. unfortunately and i mean it it's very relevant unfortunately you know none of what

she feared was a voyage. of his warnings were she added so what we have now is twenty five million compatriots from russia in kazakhstan. and other places and they're still barely treated in russia and here wrote about it. he wrote about the system of education we will lose several generations he wrote and we did land ownership elections he wrote on so many topics but things do not improve only get worse and make no headway that the article was not read by the government but people did read it at least twenty seven million copies of it were sold in the can someone is coprime of the newspaper published by them over here. no i mean it was later it's not so important that time it was like a bomb you could see people read news everywhere the newspapers editors called us

environment and told us that within a week they got two thousand and they planned to publish several letters in every issue. of discussion they published six letters and then another six and that was all because going to stop it and there was no discussion i was later trying to get those tax was letters but there was a fire and office and they were all lost. i remember we can speak endlessly about his books. but i want to ask. we're stepping into the decade when the anniversary of the russian revolution will be marked in this country. to make the value of this book for a school program. you thought of a bridge in this book for children like a piece of literature but history. they read will would be too much for schools even if it's a breached the school program cannot stretch to house everything if we give so much

to soldiers needs to have to take away something else. again your for who else it's impossible children should know russian classical literature i hope they read tolstoy but they may just look through war and peace and keep possible but. when i went to school it was that way. about peace and. oh yes it must be the same everywhere the cold so i can see that the red wheel is read very little in russia but recently as things have changed and it becomes popular and more people start reading it those of course who think about russia's fate and why we tend to have the same problems again and again. this wheel is indispensable for those cold war devote russia's future. more of a fight for moral philosopher. he was a philosopher who fought and he was

a fighter who used history philosophy and literature as his weapon so he was more of a philosopher if you ask me who was told to me and was i will say that he was a writer god gave him the turned of writing first and foremost of course he was very interested in politics but he would not have written so many political essays and made so many public speeches had he lived in more peaceful times he used to say how many of us died in the gulag very few people survived and now i need to speak up in the name of all those writers this way hugh made so many public speeches but his dream was to write fiction and to devote all his time to literature you should so it was you who was the fighter in the family no he was the fighter but me to this you're full of energy you're still a fighter each of us is a fighter in a sense. for or against whichever way you like it. i fight for russia and the reason i'm fighting is because i want russia to preserve the unique

and great things it has had. it hurts to see how much of that we're losing now. in one of the recent interviews given the. quote. worried immensely for the country and its future. what was his biggest worry before his. no. actually he was an optimist and throughout life under any grave circumstances public are personal he saw the light of the end of the tunnel and he believed in victory if i can say so he believed that the hard times would pass. but in the last two years or even the half he started losing his optimism he worried about this stratification of society it never led to anything good in any country. when there is such

a big gap between the rich and the poor the country is heading for evolution. but our country will not be able to survive another revolution and bloodshed. so fortunately we have avoided it in the late one nine hundred eighty s. and the early one nine hundred ninety s. but who knows what can happen oh internal state of mind and the state of education and health care is in a dire plight and the leaders of meet that and it will be hard to get out of this. and we may face many many problems on our way out. that's what ward. story. mark and its one hundredth anniversary. and sixty years. like human rights commission raised the problem of. his words. until we do this feel free to other nations it's

our. project our past but we have to say what kind of a past it is and realize that we have changed. do you agree that the problem of renouncing still exists. or should we close the topic and forget about it. by no means can we close this problem or forget about it. i fully agree with this alexander solzhenitsyn was talking about it from the very beginning of going back to us to destroy the biggest story he said that if we want to make progress instead of going round in circles we have to open a little knowledge to crimes that the previous regime committed but it is the people of this country without it the us will just force the disease inside and we will drop from within and it will undermine the health of the entire nation there is nothing to argue about i one hundred percent agreement was supposed to be an

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