I'm not sure about his wife to be honest but it would make sense to me. He won the Nobel Prize in 1970 for One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich but it was all part of stupid cold war political bullshit to piss off the Soviets. I think the official reason for the award was "returning ethics to Russian literature" or some outrageous nonsense like that. He was like best friends with the west at this point and had literal US army/intelligence contacts who were helping him out. The Soviets eventually had enough of his shit and deported him to West Germany where he became an icon of the "victims of communist oppression." He's a fine writer I guess but really he's famous for being a pawn in the cold war so he's very overrated in the west imo
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I'm not sure about his wife to be honest but it would make sense to me. He won the Nobel Prize in 1970 for One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich but it was all part of stupid cold war political bullshit to piss off the Soviets. I think the official reason for the award was "returning ethics to Russian literature" or some outrageous nonsense like that. He was like best friends with the west at this point and had literal US army/intelligence contacts who were helping him out. The Soviets eventually had enough of his shit and deported him to West Germany where he became an icon of the "victims of communist oppression." He's a fine writer I guess but really he's famous for being a pawn in the cold war so he's very overrated in the west imo
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yeah that doesn't matter. My point is that the capitalists used him for smear campaigns so I don't really trust most of what he writes