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The full speech here:https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/alexandersolzhenitsynharvard.htm https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/alexandersolzhenit... One of the import speeches made in the USA in second half of 20th century. "But should someone ask me whether I would indicate the West such as it is today as a model to my country, frankly I would have to answer negatively. No, I could not recommend your society in its present state as an ideal for the transformation of ours. Through intense suffering our country has now achieved a spiritual development of such intensity that the Western system in its present state of spiritual exhaustion does not look attractive. Even those characteristics of your life which I have just mentioned are extremely saddening."