Russia Mourns "Hero" and "Conscience" Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"The death of Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn is a heavy loss for the whole of Russia." -Prime Minister Vladimir Putin

Many voices spoke in remembrance of Russia's brave dissident and Nobel literature laurite, Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, who died of heart failure this past Sunday. He was 89.

"He was one of the first people who spoke up about the inhumanity of Stalin's regime with a full voice, and about the people who lived through this but were not broken," Mikhail Gorbachev said to the Interfax news agency. (REUTERS/Itar-Tass/Presidential Press Service)

According to a REUTERS report, the funeral service for Solzhenitsyn will be held on Wednesday in Moscow, at the medieval Donskoi monastery.

In 1970, Solzhenitsyn won the Nobel Prize for literature with his chronicle of life in one of Stalin's prison camps titled, Gulag Archipelago.

After losing his citizenship because of his heroic literary works and brave criticism of Soviet leadership, Alexander lived in America, with his family, and did not return to his homeland until after the disintegration of the Soviet Union.

A CBN News article about Solzhenitsyn stated that his "vision of Russia [was] a bastion of Orthodox Christianity."

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