Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quote

Quote from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,

Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against "freedom of print", it is the closing down of the heart of the nation, a slashing to pieces of its memory. The nation ceases to be mindful of itself, it is deprived of its spiritual unity, and despite a supposedly common language, compatriots suddenly cease to understand one another

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (more quotes by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn or books by/about Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)

(1918-2008) Russian novelist, Soviet dissident, imprisoned for 8 years for critizing Stalin in a personal letter, Nobel Prize for Literature, 1970

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Nobel lecture (1970), Lecture prepared for the Swedish Academy, not actually delivered as an address

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Literature, Press, Speech, Obstruction, Power, Spiritual, Nationalism, Education, Truth, Unity, Misunderstanding, War

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By:	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (more quotes by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn or books by/about Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
	(1918-2008) Russian novelist, Soviet dissident, imprisoned for 8 years for critizing Stalin in a personal letter, Nobel Prize for Literature, 1970
Source:	Nobel lecture (1970), Lecture prepared for the Swedish Academy, not actually delivered as an address
Categories:	Literature, Press, Speech, Obstruction, Power, Spiritual, Nationalism, Education, Truth, Unity, Misunderstanding, War
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