Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), Russian author and outspoken critic of communism, in Cologne, Germany, meeting with reporters on February 14, 1974 after his expulsion from Russia. Solzhenitsyn is best known for The Gulag Archipelago (1973), the publication of which outraged the Soviet authorities. Solzhenitsyn spent eight years in a Soviet Gulag forced-labor camp for writing derogatory comments in private letters to a friend, Nikolai Vitkevic, about Joseph Stalin's conduct of World War II.

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