CultureSolzhenitsyn warned of a Russian-Ukrainian war, but also wanted to redraw Ukraine’s borders

A monument to Alexander Solzhenitsyn in Vladivostok was briefly dismantled before being put back the following day. Historian Alexey Uvarov traces how the writer’s views developed, from early communism to criticism of the Soviet system, and how his contradictory positions on Russia and Ukraine foreshadowed the war between them.

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