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Alexander Solzhenitsyn (2007 photo)

Sad news tonight.  Alexander Solzhenitsyn has died of heart failure (Russian authorities say it was a stroke).

HIs books, particularly The Gulag Archipelago, revealed what many in the West wanted to ignore — the atrocities of the brutal slave labor camps the USSR used to squash dissent and prop up its economy.

The impact of that book and others he wrote about the Soviet system can’t be overstated. Perhaps for the first time, previously skeptical historians and journalists began to doubt their own assumptions about Lenin and communism. Although many still doubted until the Cold War ended.

But the truth will out. And the truth will set you free. RIP.