From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 6/8/2005 2:33 AM SOLZHENITSYN SAYS THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS RUSSIAN DEMOCRACY 05.06.2005 - 00:08:30
´´I have said many times that we have never had anything like democracy since the day that Gorbachev came to power, to say nothing about before that,´´ Solzhenitsyn said.
He criticized the United States for ´´attempting to impose its vision of democracy´´ on the world.
SOLZHENITSYN SAYS THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS RUSSIAN DEMOCRACY
Nobel Prize for literature laureate and former Soviet political prisoner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on 5 June gave his first interview in three years to RTR television.
Solzhenitsyn said that he does not understand why people are talking about a so called ´´assault on democracy in Russia.´´
´´I have said many times that we have never had anything like democracy since the day that Gorbachev came to power, to say nothing about before that,´´ Solzhenitsyn said.
He sharply criticized the country´s political institutions and its policies over the last 15 years, saying that the government ´´robbed the people of their savings´´ and then rushed through privatization.
´´Privatization architect Chubais said the world had never seen such a rapid privatization program,´´ Solzhenitsyn said.
´´But we also established a cult of billionaires who were always asking how to make things better for themselves, rather than for all of us.´´
He added that democracy is a slow process that cannot be imposed from above but goes from the bottom to the top.
He criticized the United States for ´´attempting to impose its vision of democracy´´ on the world.
He concluded by saying that Russia´s national idea should be ´´to save the nation.´´
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