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may 27 Learn More Aleksander Solzhenitsyn Returns to Russia
Novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia on this day in 1994, twenty years after his controversial writing got him kicked out of the country. Solzhenitsyn was critical of both Joseph Stalin and the Russian way of life in general, and his book The Gulag Archipelago won him the Nobel Prize in 1970. It was based, in part, on his own experiences in a Siberian gulag labor camp to which he was sentenced after making sarcastic remarks about Stalin in a private letter. Think about that the next time you fire off a snarky text message about your tyrannical math teacher's hideous sweater vest.
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