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As for Europe, its claims towards Russia are fairly transparently based on fears about energy, unjustified fears at that.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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