At the beginning of the [XXth] century, the poet N. Minsky expressed such an objection: that #Zionism is the loss of the universal measure, that it reduces the universal cosmopolitan scale of Jewry to the level of ordinary nationalism. ... It is interesting to compare with this the remark of the Orthodox Christian thinker S. Bulgakov, also made before the Russian revolution: "The greatest difficulty for Zionism now consists in the fact that it is unable to regain the lost faith of the fathers and is forced to be based on a national or cultural-ethnographic principle, on which no truly great nationality can be established."

— Solzhenitsyn, "Two Hundred Years Together"