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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.

Transcontinental wrote: ↑Wed May 27, 2026 2:43 am 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.

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."