Konstantin Kisin delivered these remarks – which also appear on his Substack – at the ARC conference in London
Ladies and gentlemen, it is great to be back at ARC. If we haven’t met, my name is Konstantin. I was born in Soviet Russia and moved here when I was a teenager. I love this country and I say so publicly, which is how you know I still haven’t integrated into British culture.
Last time we were here, I opened my speech with this quote from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
‘The strength or weakness of a society depends more on the level of its spiritual life than on its level of industrialisation. If a nation’s spiritual energies have been exhausted, it will not be saved from collapse by the most perfect government structure or by any industrial development. A tree with a
rotten core cannot stand.‘
British people used to deal with crime by moving criminals to Australia.
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