Alexander Solzhenitsyn dies at 89

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Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who exposed Stalin's prison system in his novels and spent 20 years in exile, has died near Moscow at the age of 89.

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To me, he'll always be a Janus: An inspirational figure whose first-hand accounts taught us about the horrors of Stalinism. On the other hand a pious hermit, a Russian nationalist on the verge of anti-semitism and delusion.

Whatever! R.I.P., old man! :wave2:
 

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