You can find the full Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn essay here, and we hope you get to know and apply it well. When all seems lost, we can remain committed to live not by lies. We know Jesus Christ, and therefore we know the Truth. 

 

Solzhenitsyn was illegally raised a Christian, became a devout atheist marxist, and joined the Red Army, only to repent of his previous life and turn to Christ in a Gulag. He became a thorn in the side to Soviet Russia, and was exiled to the West. He wrote this essay immediately before his exile. 

 

The first step to freedom is refusing to live by lies. You're free in Christ, live not by lies.