Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Nobel Lecture

This being my first read i was having difficulty getting into and understanding the first part of it. I think he tries to explain how the rest of the world does not see how people lived in Russia and how they are treated. He warns us not to do what Russia has be doing for years. We living in the United States do not have a clue on how hard they really had it, because we have it so good hear.