The dissident writer, persecuted in his homeland during Communism and awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, died on 3rd August 2008 in Moscow and was solemnly buried in the Donskoy Cemetery of the same town.
Here we propose the memory of his kept by Shimon Peres, a former Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs and the current President of Israel: "Solzhenitsyn warned me: Only self - restraint will save humanity", from Haaretz Presidential Blog of 9/9/2008.
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