USSR, February 13, 1974. In the plane which took off from Moscow, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 55 years old. This is the second time that he left the soil of his homeland (the first was during the war, to go to the front) and he would not find it until twenty years later, after the fall of a regime. that he will have fought all his life. Through the window, he contemplates the clouds. “ I saw my life from the outside, as if it had already ended. Nothing to say, she was successful. Of my imprecations, neither these leaders nor their successors will manage to disentangle themselves, even in fifty years ”, he wrote, thinking back to that moment. Two months earlier, L'Archipel du Goulag appeared in Paris. The last straw for the Communist regime, which decides to get rid of the dissident.
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