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Alexander Solzhenitsyn was born in Russia, DECEMBER 11, 1918. He was arrested for writing a letter stating the Truth about communist Joseph Stalin and spent eleven years in prisons and labor camps. Solzhenitsyn began writing and eventually received the Nobel Prize for Literature. He wrote: "At the height of Stalin's terror in 1937-38...more than 40,000 persons were shot per month...Over there people are groaning and dying and in psychiatric hospitals, doctors are making their evening rounds, injecting people with drugs which destroy their brain cells." Solzhenitsyn continued: "You know the words from the Bible: 'Build not on sand, but on Rock'.... Lenin's criminal mentality, communist teachings are that anyone is considered to be a fool who doesn't steal from helpless people or take what's lying in front of him. If you can take it, take it....." Alexander Solzhenitsyn concluded: "America...they are trying to weaken you; they are trying to disarm your strong and magnificent country...I call upon you: ordinary working men of America...do not let yourselves become weak."The American Minute with Bill FedererAleksandr Solzhenitsyn (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Russian novelist, historian, and short story writer. He was an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union and communism and helped to raise global awareness of its Gulag forced labor camp system. He was allowed to publish only one work in the Soviet Union, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962), in the periodical Novy Mir. After this he had to publish in the West, most notably Cancer Ward (1968), August 1914 (1971), and The Gulag Archipelago (1973). Solzhenitsyn was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature"