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Soviet Dissident Writer Solzhenitsyn Dies at 89. MOSCOW — Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Soviet dissident writer and Nobel literature prize winner who revealed the horror of Stalin’s camps to the world, died late on Sunday aged 89, Russian news agencies reported. Itar-Tass news agency quoted Solzhenitsyn’s son Stepan as saying ...
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Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1939: Adolf Hitler. (Hat tip: Jack.)