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Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who exposed Stalin's prison system in his novels and spent 20 years in exile, has died near Moscow at the age of 89.
The author of The Gulag Archipelago and One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich, who returned to Russia in 1994, died of either a stroke or heart failure.
No, I don't think it was his lot in life to be happy. The Soviet Union was intolerable, but the western world certainly wasn't his cup of tea; it was just the place where he could live in exile. Upon returning to Russia, he certainly wasn't pleased with how democracy was (or wasn't) taking shape. Furthermore, while he initially received a hero's welcome, it didn't last long. He was viewed as a man of another era and marginalized. It seems to me sometimes that it is not easy to outlive one's legend.
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Solzhenitsyn had been ill for years
