Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, dead at 89, was a writer without a country until the final years of his life. Soviet Russia affronted, abused, imprisoned and expelled him. The west, its liberties and its democracies, appalled him.
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The man who embodied Russia, for good and ill
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, dead at 89, was a writer without a country until the final years of his life. Soviet Russia affronted, abused, imprisoned and expelled him. The west, its liberties and its democracies, appalled him.
