Aleksandr SolzhenitsynAleksandr Solzhenitsyn, (1918-2008) Russian novelist, Soviet dissident, imprisoned for 8 years for critizing Stalin in a personal letter, Nobel Prize for Literature, 1970

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quote

“Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation’s heart, the excision of its memory.”

Aleksandr SolzhenitsynAleksandr Solzhenitsyn
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Time, 25 February 1974

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