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Solzhenitsyn and the Nobel Prize
How the Soviet dissident smuggled his writing to the outside world.
A young Swedish journalist became his courier to the West.
How the Soviet dissident smuggled his writing to the outside world.
A young Swedish journalist became his courier to the West.
His first mission was to take Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Nobel Prize acceptance speech out of Moscow.
Photo: Stig Fredriksen with Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Picture by Ingrid Fredriksen.
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