Any authenticity of this Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn quote?

[Transcontinental]

Is there any verifiable evidence of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn saying the following quote?

“You must understand. The leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse. The October Revolution was not what you call in America the ‘Russian Revolution.’ It was an invasion and conquest over the Russian people. More of my countrymen suffered horrific crimes at their bloodstained hands than any people or nation ever suffered in the entirety of human history. It cannot be overstated. Bolshevism committed the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant and uncaring about this enormous crime is proof that the global media is in the hands of the perpetrators."

I know this quote is from David Duke's "The Secret Behind Communism" however a lot of people, including me, question the authenticity and trustworthiness of Dr. David Duke. Duke claims to have met Solzhenitsyn in 2002 in Moscow. Despite no evidence of the meeting taking place I wouldn't be surprised if it did considering Duke's visits to Russia and interviews with well known people.

[Wahrheitssucher]

Is there any verifiable evidence of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn saying the following quote?

“You must understand. The leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse. The October Revolution was not what you call in America the ‘Russian Revolution.’ It was an invasion and conquest over the Russian people. More of my countrymen suffered horrific crimes at their bloodstained hands than any people or nation ever suffered in the entirety of human history. It cannot be overstated. Bolshevism committed the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant and uncaring about this enormous crime is proof that the global media is in the hands of the perpetrators."

I know this quote is from David Duke's "The Secret Behind Communism"...
Duke claims to have met Solzhenitsyn in 2002 in Moscow. …

That is the source for those words: viz. David Duke!
Dr.Duke claimed that Solzhenitsyn said these words to him during a meeting they had in Moscow in 2002.
So you won’t find that exact quote in any of Solzhenitsyn’s books.
Though he did write about that theme in a 2-volume work, the second volume being published in the year Duke met him.
SUMMARY: It IS the theme of his book ‘Two hundred years together’ which narrates the history of Jews and Russia over the last two centuries, starting from 1795.

In that book, amongst other related themes, Solzhenitsyn wrote about the ethnic composition of parts of the revolutionary leadership, the Cheka, and Soviet bureaucracy, and he named many Jews individually.

Two Hundred Years Together is a two-volume historical work by Russian author and Nobel laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, published in Russian in 2001–2002.
It examines relations between Russians and Jews from the late 18th century through the Soviet era.
The work sparked significant debate for its portrayal of Jewish participation in Russian revolutionary and Soviet history.

Rather revealingly, it is the ONLY book of Solzhenitsyn that has NOT yet been officially translated and published in English.
An official English translation is supposedly planned for release later in 2026.
But any intelligent, open-minded, inquistive person must question why only that book of his has not been translated when they have had quarter of a century to do it.

In ‘Two hundred years together’, Solzhenitsyn claims that Jews promoted alcoholism among the peasantry, flooded the retail trade with contraband, and "strangled" the Russian merchant class in Moscow.[25]
According to Solzhenitsyn, Jews are non-producing people ("непроизводительный народ")[26] and refuse to engage in factory labor.[27] They are averse to agriculture and unwilling to till the land either in Russia, in Argentina, or in Palestine,[28] and the author blames the Jews' own behavior for pogroms.[29]
Solzhenitsyn also claims that Jews used Kabbalah to tempt Russians into heresy,[30] seduced Russians with rationalism and fashion,[31] provoked sectarianism and weakened the financial system,[32] committed murders on the orders of qahal authorities,[33] and exerted undue influence on the prerevolutionary government.[34]
~ reference

The 2-volume work has been officially translated into French and German.
Regarding the quote which David Duke published: a German Cultural historian Elisa Kriza read the book and in her review criticised Solzhenitsyn for his “accusations towards Jewish people as a group and his treatment of Russian Jews as "foreign", despite being in Russia for two hundred years”.
https://fis.uni-bamberg.de/entities/pub ... 79c226657e

That is a criticism which supports Dr. Duke’s quote as being an accurate representation of Solzhenitsyn’s thought.

[pilgrimofdark]

It's the first endnote in Duke's book:
Duke, Dr. D. "A Life-Changing Conversation in Moscow" Duke Report 2002.

Maybe someone else can track down a copy of the entire 2002 Duke Report to get the full article. I wasn't able to find it.

As Wahrheitssucher wrote, Duke is reporting a conversation he had with Solzhenitsyn himself. It's not from any of Solzhenitsyn's books, but he had recently finished the second volume of Two Hundred Years Together.

There are also relevent quotes in that book. These are a few from one chapter.

The Bolsheviks thus appealed to the Jews from the very first hours of their takeover, offering to some executive positions, to others tasks of execution within the Soviet State apparatus. And many, many, answered the call, and immediately entered. The new power was in desperate need of executors who were faithful in every way—and there were many of them among the young secularised Jews, who thus mingled with their colleagues, Slavs and others. These were not necessarily “renegades”: there were among them some without political party affiliations, persons outside the revolution, who had hitherto remained indifferent to politics. For some, this approach was not ideological; it could be dictated only by personal interest. It was a mass phenomenon. And from that time the Jews no longer sought to settle in the forbidden countryside, they endeavoured to reach the capitals...

Trotsky himself was an incontestable internationalist, and one can believe him when he declares emphatically that he rejects for himself all belonging to Jewishness. But judging by the choices he made in his appointments, we see that the renegade Jews were closer to him than the renegade Russians.

The omnipresence of the Jews alongside the Bolsheviks had, during these terrible days and months, the most atrocious consequences. Among them is the assassination of the Imperial family, of which, today, everybody speaks, and where the Russians now exaggerate the share of the Jews, who find in this heart-wrenching thought an evil enjoyment. As it should, the most dynamic Jews (and they are many) were at the height of events and often at the command posts.

What brought all these rebels together—and, later, beyond the seas—, was a flurry of unbridled revolutionary internationalism, an impulse towards revolution, a revolution that was global and “permanent”. The rapid success of the Jews in the Bolshevik administration could not be ignored in Europe and the United States. Even worse: they were admired there! At the time of the passage from February to October, Jewish public opinion in America did not mute its sympathies for the Russian revolution.

So if someone wants to discount the authenticity of David Duke's quote, that's fine. But it's more difficult to dismiss the many similar sentiments throughout Two Hundred Years Together.

It's also worth noting that Duke's Solzhenitsyn quote doesn't explicitly mention Jews. And some of theme of Two Hundred Years Together is echoed in The Jewish century, a book written by a Jew that won awards. Kevin MacDonald wrote an article reviewing Slezkine's book and expanding on it: "Stalin's Willing Executioners."

[Wahrheitssucher]

You must understand. The Ieading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse.

The October Revolution was not what you call in America the 'Russian Revolution.' It was an invasion and conquest over the Russian people.

More of my countrymen suffered horrific crimes at their bloodstained hands than any people or nation ever suffered in the entirety of human history.

It cannot be overstated. Bolshevism committed the greatest human slaughter of all time.

The fact that most of the world is ignorant and uncaring about this enormous crime is proof that the global media is in the hands of the perpetrators."

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)

These were startling words, spoken to me by the famous Russian writer and philosopher Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn when I had the privilege of meeting him in Moscow in 2002.

His words made me fully realise the fact that most of the people of the world know little about the tribalist entity which created and drove the Communist juggernaut that took over Russia. They also know frightfully little about the greatest slaughters in history, the genocide of tens of millions of people that was spawned by deep ethnic hatred.

For so many people, even for some of those who have studied the "Russian Revolution" in history courses in universities around the world, this is "the secret behind Communism." This secret, even though plain to see if one just looks closely, is rarely spoken about in either the mainstream press or in mainstream academia.

When I met Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn he had just published his last work, called Two Hundred Years Together (2001). It was about the Jewish experience in Russia, and contained three chapters devoted to discussing the Jewish role in the revolutionary genocide and secret police purges of Soviet Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution of October 1917.

I waited for ten years in vain for the book to be published in English. It remains unpublished to this day. Of course.
The secret behind Communism must remain a secret to most of the public.

Solzhenitsyn knew that he would be condemned for daring to point out the secret, but he went ahead nonetheless, telling me that it was his duty to tell the truth so that the world would know. He paid the price.

Although his book was a runaway bestseller in Russia, this last important book by the Nobel Prize-winning author has never been published in English. So the largest audience in the world has been denied the truth. The controlled media had to mute the great man's voice.

… I began this book with the words that Solzhenitsyn personally told me: the Russian revolution was not Russian, but an alien invasion of Russia by a people that despised the Russian people for so-called anti-Semitism.
The Jews who lived in Russia for centuries ultimately sided with Jewish Communist overlords who hatefully murdered millions of native Russians, those whom they saw as ethnic enemies.
In later years, before the fall and breakup of the Soviet Union, Jews lost their preeminent power in the nation. However, books such as the Red Mafia show that they had retained many positions in the Russian system and were still at the heart of huge corruption rackets there.

When Communism finally collapsed, those Jewish organized crime syndicates morphed into the most aggressive organized crime syndicates of all time, referred to as the "Russian Mafia" by the Jewish-dominated media. In fact, the so-called Russian Mafia is not Russian, it is a Jewish Mafia. In a word it is controlled from the top down by ethnic tribalist Jews. The overwhelmingly Jewish oligarchs, through murder, extortion, bribery, fraud and theft, stole much of the natural assets of the world's richest resource empire.

And to this day, Jewish tribal influence in media and government has sheltered and defended, sometimes even made into heroes, these Jewish gangsters who stole much of Russia.

~ David Duke. ‘The secret behind communism’.

https://archive.org/details/TheSecretBe ... lzhenitsyn