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Russia Is Free and Democratic Thanks to Solzhenitsyn, Gorbachev Said
Russia should be grateful to Alexander Solzhenitsyn for his impact in development of freedom and democracy in our country, the first president of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev announced Monday in the air of Echo of Moscow Radio Station.
Russia’s famous writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn died of cardiac shock in Moscow at night. He was 89 years old.
“His books, One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich, The Gulag Archipelago, are the books that helped people see what that regime meant in truth. We should be grateful to Alexander Isaevich for his impact in making our country free and democratic,” Gorbachov said.
The first president of the USSR called Solzhenitsyn a great man, who “was amid the first to raise voice against Stalin’s regime in defense of people that fell victims to it.”
“A few could be compared to him in what that man did in his life,” Gorbachev emphasized.
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