Orthodox leader: Remember the Soviet lesson before it’s too late

Orthodox Church leader George Michalopulos attended the Stop the Steal event in Washington, US, on Saturday. He compared what is happening in the United States to what happened in the Soviet Union and called for the lessons of history to be remembered.

In his speech, Mihalopoulos quoted a famous Soviet political prisoner, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who said, “The simple step for a brave man is not to engage in lies. A word of truth carries more weight than the whole world.”

Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago, he says, is a lesson for everyone not to act until it is too late.

“The loss of our Republic is an obvious sin.” “Don’t wait until later to say, ‘We didn’t do anything,'” he told the rally. “We accepted the lie of the corporate media and went about our daily business thinking this too would pass. This is America. What happened in Russia cannot be repeated here.”

“The Gulag Islands are a disease, an instrument of the most severe oppression in human history, and he [Solzhenitsyn] wrote years later: ‘When we have the chance, why don’t we stop it? ‘That really stuck with me.”

“We must stop it now, this theft, or we will never have a free or fair election again.” He said.

Salih Hudayar, the founder of the East Turkistan National Awakening Movement, denounced the Chinese Communist Party and its persecution of Uighurs and warned Americans of the destructive nature of communism and socialism.

“Socialism and communism bring death and destruction, nothing but death and destruction,” he said. You can see it all over China, you can see it in the Soviet Union. Communism and socialism have killed more than 100 million people, more than any other ‘ism’ in the history of mankind combined.”