Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist, historian, short story writer and a decorated military officer in WWII. He was a critic of the Soviet Socialism, Communism and the Gulag labor camps! He spent eight years of his life in a Soviet labor camp and lived to tell about it! He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970. Though a good military officer on the Eastern front and then the push into Prussia he could not overlook the brutality of the Soviet system! He witnessed Russian soldiers raping to death Polish and German women! He told his troops we are not any better than the Nazi’s! He wrote to a friend and expressed the need for a change in the Soviet Socialist system! His letter was intercepted and he was sentenced to 8 years in the Soviet labor camps! Everyday in these camps men would collapse from heavy work and a starvation diet! When they fell to the ground they were beaten to death with there own shovels! Day by day and year by year Aleksandr was weakened by these conditions! Finally he could no longer stand! He went down to his knee’s in fatigue! A nearby prisoner came close to him and drew a Cross in the sand for him to see! Then this fellow prisoner took his hand and wiped out the Cross in the sand! When he saw the Cross his body regained strength and he stood up once again and began to work! Aleksandr met the Christ that day who had made many more sacrifices than he had ever done! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com