Welcome to Call to Decision 

 American Minute with Bill Federer

 February 13

 "Man has forgotten God, that is why this has happened" was
 Solzhenitsyn's response when questioned about the decline of modern
 culture.

 A Russian author, Solzhenitsyn was imprisoned for eight years by
 Joseph Stalin, as he described in his autobiography, Les Prix Nobel:

 "I was arrested on the grounds of what the censorship had found in my
 correspondence with a school friend, mainly because of certain
 disrespectful remarks about Stalin, although we referred to him in
 disguised terms.

 A further basis for the 'charge' were drafts of stories and
 reflections which had been found in my map case."

 He wrote "The Gulag Archipelago" for which he was awarded the Nobel
 Prize for Literature, 1970, but the Communist government did not
 allowed him to leave the country to accept it.

 Finally, under international pressure, the Soviet Union expelled him
 on FEBRUARY 13, 1974.

 The following year in Washington, D.C., Alexander Solzhenitsyn
 warned:

 "I...call upon America to be more careful...because they are trying
 to weaken you...to disarm your strong and magnificent country in the
 face of this fearful threat- one that has never been seen before in
 the history of the world."