Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – Banquet speech

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1974 (in Russian)

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From Les Prix Nobel en 1970, Editor Wilhelm Odelberg, [Nobel Foundation], Stockholm, 1971
Copyright © The Nobel Foundation 1974

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