Word: solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Nobel-prizewinning novelist and freshly returned exile to Russia, sat in the Musical Comedy Theater of the Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk and carefully jotted down their comments in a black notebook. He had chosen to return to Moscow via a long cross-country train trip lasting several weeks, stopping in towns along the way to greet the locals and listen to their complaints. When he arrived later at Blagoveshchensk, he was surprised to see 200 well-wishers. "I didn't expect there would be so many people," Solzhenitsyn said. "I say this everywhere, and I want...
...President Solzhenitsyn...
Washington -- Although 48% of the respondents to a recent poll in St. Petersburg said they would like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn to be President of Russia (only 18% picked Boris Yeltsin), the writer's wife Natalya has told TIME that he has no plans to enter politics. Despite the turmoil in Russia last month, the couple still plans to return in May after 17 years of exile in Vermont. "The decision has been made," Natalya says...
Nobel prizewinning novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn will end 20 years of exile in the U.S. to return to his native Russia within "a matter of months," according to his wife...
...understand it if a soldier who has crossed thousands of kilometers through blood and fire and death has fun with a woman or takes some trifle?" In 1945, Soviet soldiers raped 2 million German women as a massive payback for everything the Nazis had done to Russia. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who was a Soviet army captain in East Prussia in 1945, recorded: "All of us knew very well that if the girls were German, they could be raped and then shot. That was almost a combat distinction...