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Letter from Alexander Solzhenitsyn

      Having thrown away the United Nations and trampled its Charter under foot, NATO has proclaimed before the world for the coming century an old law, that of the jungle: the strongest is always right. If your high technology permits it, surpass a hundred times in violence the adversary you condemn. And it is in this world that you invite us to live henceforth.

      Under the eyes of humanity they are destroying a magnificent European country, and the civilized governments applaud it.

      When the people [of Serbia] in despair leave their shelters and make human chains, at the risk of their lives, to save the bridges over the Danube, does this not rank with the high heroics of antiquity? I do not see what could stop Clinton, Blair, and Solana from exterminating them by fire Danube, does this not rank with the high heroics of antiquity? I do not see what could stop Clinton, Blair, and Solana from exterminating them by fire and water to the last man.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Moscow, 8 April 1999

Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999
Subject: Solzhenitsyn Letter
Since no one else has put a translation of this on the list, I attempted the following from the French of M. Struve and sent it to the local newspaper. If someone who knows Russian (or French better than me) can correct it please do so.
Fr. Paul Yerger
Holy Resurrection Church
Clinton (Jackson), Mississippi

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