A Nobel Prize winner speaks out

The famous Russian writer and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, holds that Russia can put an end to terrorism only by abolishing the moratorium on the capital punishment in the country.

Solzhenitsyn: "There are times when the state needs capital punishment in order to save society. That is the way the question stands in Russia today"

Solzhenitsyn said that Chechnya continues to remain "an unfinished chapter in Russia's history, its grave political problem." And he said that that is why the wave of terror in Russia is mounting. Meanwhile, those Chechen terrorists who have been caught, they scoff at Russian justice because they know they will not be sentenced to death. The terrorists are counting on the fact that by having proclaimed a moratorium on capital punishment, Russia cannot in any way be found guilty before Strasbourg, the PACE.

He also recalled how the father of writer Vladimir Nabokov tried for 20 years to abolish capital punishment in Russia. But when the country was deluged by "all the filthy abomination of the 1917 February revolution" and was engulfed by a wave of unpunished crimes, Nabokov’s father admitted to his Duma deputy colleagues that he had erred and that it would be possible to check the rampage of violence only by carrying out death sentences.

Solzhenitsyn is convinced that those in Europe who dictate to us to abolish capital punishment had never experienced such severe trials that Russia went through. He remarked: "Europe simply did not go through such trials."

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