"a state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny" - alexander solzhenitsyn
writer who shone light on gulag diesfrom ap: Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning author whose books chronicled the horrors of the Soviet gulag system, has died at 89. Son Stepan said his father died of heart failure.
Solzhenitsyn’s unflinching accounts of torment and survival in the Soviet Union’s slave labour camps riveted his countrymen, whose secret history he exposed.
It earned him 20 years of bitter exile but international renown, and inspired millions.
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