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Truth-telling Solzhenitsyn remained great to the end

by Carlin Romano [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[6.Aug.08] :. “Live Not By Lies!” thundered Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who died Sunday at 89, in the uncannily wise, noble and thrilling statement he addressed to fellow Russians on Feb. 13, 1974. It was...

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Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn dies

by Alex Rodriguez [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[4.Aug.08] :. MOSCOW - For the Western world, Alexander Solzhenitsyn peeled back the layers of secrecy that obscured the Soviet system’s inhumanity to a people relegated by Josef Stalin to the role of cogs...

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Film documents brutal story of Stalin’s atrocities in Poland

by Tom Hundley [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[2.Jun.08] :. For 50 years, the word was never spoken, only whispered: Katyn, the forest where in spring 1940, six months after Germany and the Soviet Union secretly agreed to carve up Poland, more than 21,000...

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