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>STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.HOME-PAGE.ORG > >Solzhenitsyn: No difference >between NATO's actions and Hitler's > > >June 2, 1999 >Web posted at: 11:56 PM EDT (0356 GMT) > > >MOSCOW (AP) -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Russian writer and Nobel Peace >Prize laureate, said Wednesday that NATO's bombardment of Yugoslavia was >morally no different than Hitler's actions. > > >"I don't see any difference in the behavior of NATO and of Hitler," he was >quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency. > > >"NATO wants to erect its own order in the world, and it needs Yugoslavia >simply as an example: 'We'll punish Yugoslavia, and the whole rest of the >planet will tremble,"' he told reporters. > > >Solzhenitsyn spoke after being presented with the Lomonosov gold medal for >his contribution to literature and history at Russia's Academy of >Sciences. The academy had announced that it would give the medal to >Solzhenitsyn in December, on the writer's 80th birthday. > > >Solzhenitsyn was held in Soviet prison camps for eight years, and he >turned his experiences into his life's work: books including "One Day in >the Life of Ivan Denisovich" and the three-volume "Gulag Archipelago," >which chronicled the atrocities in the Soviet Union's prison camps. > > >He was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974 and returned to Russia only 20 >years later. > > > > Copyright 1999 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material >may not be > published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. > > >______________________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe, write to STOPNATO-unsubscribe@listbot.com >Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/ ------Syndicate mailinglist-------------------- Syndicate network for media culture and media art information and archive: http://www.v2.nl/syndicate to unsubscribe, write to <syndicate-request@aec.at> in the body of the msg: unsubscribe your@email.adress