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War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Born: December 11, 1918
Died: August 3, 2008 (aged 89)
Bio: Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist, historian, and short story writer. He was an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union and its totalitarianism and helped to raise global awareness of its Gulag forced labor camp system.
Known for:
- The Gulag Archipelago (1973)
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)
- Cancer Ward (1968)
- In the First Circle (1968)
- August 1914 (1972)
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