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Live Not by Lies
A short essay Solzhenitsyn released on 12 February 1974, the day of his arrest, just before he was exiled from the Soviet Union. It asks ordinary people not to overthrow anything, only to refuse, each personally, to take part in lies.
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“We are not called upon to step out onto the square and shout out the truth, to say out loud what we think—this is scary, we are not ready. But let us at least refuse to say what we do not think!”
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Live Not by Lies (12 February 1974), tr. Yermolai Solzhenitsyn, as published by the Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Center