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Solzhenitsyn’s troubles with Soviet authorities began in 1945 because he referred to Joseph Stalin disrespectfully in a letter to an old friend. The author was a member of the Soviet Army at the time, stationed in East Prussia as World War II drew to a close. Agents from Smersh, a Soviet spy agency, arrested the 26-year-old, who had been decorated for heroism in battle and was at the time a loyal Communist Party member, ....A court sentenced him to eight years in the constellation of brutal prison camps across the Soviet Union that he later called the “gulag archipelago.” source Smithsonian Magazine
Andrey Kurkov: ‘At 17, I got my hands on an illegal copy of The Gulag Archipelago’
The Guardian
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