One of the most renowned and controversial figures of the past century, the Russian writer, dramatist, and historian Alexander Solzhenitsyn, died in Moscow at age 89. For his having brought to light the Soviet labor camp system in his writings, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, he was exiled from the Soviet Union to Germany and to the United States, where he likewise failed to find peace. But despite the controversy surrounding his ideas, the epitome of a great man will always be remembered both by kindred spirits and opponents alike.
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