Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Wednesday, February 14, 1974. Solzhenitsyn expelled.


A Soviet court revoked Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's citizenship and ordered him expelled from the USSR.  He was placed on an Aeroflot flight to West Germany with only the clothes on  is back.

His family was left in the Soviet Union.

The following day, the Soviet Ministry of Culture directed libraries containing One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich to remove them.

The novel is one of my favorites.

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Thursday, February 7, 1974: Blog Mirror: "Blazing Saddles" Premieres

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