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World Service,10 Oct 2012,9 mins

Solzhenitsyn and the Nobel Prize

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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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