Russell Brand
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Did he expose America's materialism?
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0:43Now PlayingEveryone in that Harvard auditorium expected Solzhenitsyn to walk up and celebrate the West for defeating communism, especially given what he'd survived under the Soviet regime. Instead he spent nearly an hour doing the opposite, arguing the West had made the exact same fatal mistake as the USSR, just wearing different clothes. Where the Soviets replaced God with revolution, he said, America had replaced God with commercialism, materialism, and greed. A commencement address nobody in that room was prepared for, and one that still lands just as hard decades later.
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