The bastards finally got him. He lived to one fine age after what he'd been through in his life. Oddly enough I picked up Cancer Ward (again) for 2.50 on Thursday.
Had Stalin never existed, Aleksander probably would have led a much less eventful life.
Let's be thankful that, because of Stalin's iron fist and Solzhenitsyn's suffering, the literary world, and indeed the global conscience, has been more enriched.