A Quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Destroy First Must People Roots

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Russian - Novelist
December 11, 1918 - August 3, 2008

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It was the first rent in the holy image of my father, it was the first fissure in the columns that had upheld my childhood, which every individual must destroy before he can become himself.

Hermann Hesse

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