"After all, we have gotten use to regarding as valor only valor in war (or the kind that is needed for flying in outer space), the kind which jingle-jangles with medals. We have forgotten another concept of valor [(доблесть)]—civil [(гражданскую)] valor. And that's all our society needs, just that, just that, just that! That's all we need and that's exactly what we haven't got."
Aleksander I. Solzhenitsyn, The gulag archipelago 1918-1956: an experiment in literary investigation I-II, trans. Thomas P. Whitney (New York: Harper & Row, 1973), 461-462 (chap. 12, Tyurzak) = first full paragraph on p. 464 of the Paris (YMCA - Press) Russian edition of 1973. Cf. Alexievich.
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