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Alexander Solzhenitsyn dies at 89

The Nobel Laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn has died at the age of 89. Dr Michael Nicholson, of University College Oxford, and Lord Pearson of Rannoch, UK guardian to Solzhenitsyn's son, talk about the man who exposed Stalin's prison system in his novels.

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