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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist and historian. Arrested in 1945 while serving as a Red Army officer for criticising Stalin in private letters, he spent eight years in labour camps and later wrote about them in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) and The Gulag Archipelago. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974, and returned to Russia in 1994.
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“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.”
“We are not called upon to step out onto the square and shout out the truth, to say out loud what we think—this is scary, we are not ready. But let us at least refuse to say what we do not think!”