Nobel Winning Russian Dissident Dies at 89

Posted August 3, 2008, 10:29 pm in Entertainment
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning Russian author has died at 89. His son said late Sunday that he died of heart failure. Solzhenitsyn was a world symbol of censorship and oppression in the Soviet Union. His books chronicled the horrors of dictator Josef Stalin's slave labor camps and won him the 1970 Nobel Prize for literature. The Kremlin stripped him of his citizenship and sent him to exile in 1974. He eventually settled in the United States, before returning to Russia in 1994.



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