In what year did Solzhenitsyn lose his Soviet citizenship?
1964
1970
1974
1980
Answer
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn lost his Soviet citizenship in 1974 after the publication of The Gulag Archipelago, which outraged the Soviet authorities. He was then flown to West Germany.
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