Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn waves to well-wishers in the main square in Vladivostok after he returned to Russia following 20 years of exile, on May 27, 1994. Michael Evstafiev/AFP via Getty Images12/28/2025|Updated: 12/28/2025CommentaryIn February 1974, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was arrested by the KGB, stripped of his citizenship, and expelled from the Soviet Union. On the eve of his arrest, he circulated a short essay among Moscow’s intellectuals titled “Live Not by Lies.”William Brooks is a Canadian writer who contributes to The Epoch Times from Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is a senior fellow with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. Author’s Selected Articles
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