Alexander Solzhenitsyn Dies at 89
By VOA News
03 August 2008
Nobel prize-winning Russian novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who was forced into exile for books strongly critical of the Soviet government, has died at 89.
His son said Sunday Solzhenitsyn died of heart failure while Russian news reports said he suffered a stroke.Solzhenitsyn was an iconic world symbol of censorship and oppression in the Soviet Union. the rest
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