First published at 00:25 UTC on September 26th, 2020.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn of "Gulag Archipelago" fame gave a "Commencement Address" at Harvard University on 8th June 1978.
It was a tough-love message to the the West from a friend. The topics covered include:
- A Decline in Co…
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn of "Gulag Archipelago" fame gave a "Commencement Address" at Harvard University on 8th June 1978.
It was a tough-love message to the the West from a friend. The topics covered include:
- A Decline in Courage in the West
- Well-Being
- Legalistic Life
- The Direction of Freedom
- The Direction of the Press
- A Fashion in Thinking
- Socialism
- Not a Model
- Shortsightedness
- Loss of Willpower
- Humanism and Its Consequences
- An Unexpected Kinship
- Before the Turn
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Work done on source video material:
- Fixed the colour-balance of the original source.
- Fix, as much as possible, the irritating pink/purple videotape artefact at the top of the picture; however the best I could manage was make the artefact near-monochrome instead of pink, which I think is less annoying - you may disagree.
- Applied some sharpening filters to the picture.
- Hard-coded / burnt-in the subtitles of the translation.
- Removed some hiss from the audio, and boosted the volume.
The original can be found at youtube(dot)com/watch?v=WuVG8SnxxCM
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