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... once you get up steam, you are carried helplessly along.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
Historian
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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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