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Article: Solzhenitzyn's good reasons for reluctance to go home. (author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's hesitation to return to Russia) (Column)
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- Insight on the News
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- March 8, 1993
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Russia awaits the return of a great hero of the Cold War, but he does not come. Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn sits in his home in Vermont writing but resists invitations to go home.
Strange. His wife, Natalia, his sons Ermolai and Stepan, both at Harvard, and her son by a previous marriage, Dmitri, a New York documentary film producer, visited Russia from May to July last year. Several Russian periodicals interviewed Mrs. Solzhenitsyn seeking an explanation for band's behavior. One Russian magazine even apologized to Mrs. Solzhenitsyn for the awful things they had written about her husband in the good old Bolshevik days.
President Boris Yeltsin of ...