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Was Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn able to get away with his political writings?

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In 1969 Solzhenitsyn was expelled from the Union of Soviet Writers and prohibited from living in Moscow. In 1970 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, but government pressure, specifically the threat of not being allowed to return from Stockholm, compelled him to decline the prize.

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