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GORBACHEV ASSAILS SOLZHYNITSYN PLAN

Author: (Associated Press)
Date: Wednesday, September 26, 1990
Page: 24
Section: NATIONAL/FOREIGN

MOSCOW -- Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn's proposal to replace the Soviet Union with an all-Slavic state is destructive and disrespectful to the country's other ethnic groups, President Mikhail S. Gorbachev said yesterday.

Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning author who was expelled from the Soviet Union for treason in 1974, made his proposal in an article published a week ago by two Soviet newspapers.

In his first public comment on the article, Gorbachev told the national legislature that Solzhenitsyn was an "undoubtedly great man," but "his views on the future of our multinational state are unacceptable."

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