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Mon 08 Aug 2008Nobel laureate and Soviet dissident Solzhenitsyn dies
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the dissident Russian writer and Nobel laureate whose portrayals of Josef Stalins labour camps and political oppression helped undermine the Soviet grip on power, has died, his son said. He was 89.
He died of heart failure, Stephan Solzhenitsyn said.
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