On this day 51 years ago, on February 12, 1974 (January 21, 1974 lunar calendar), Soviet dissident Solzhenitsyn was detained. Solzhenitsyn was expelled February 12, 1974 Soviet dissident, Nobel laureate Solzhenitsyn was arrested in his apartment in Moscow. Solzhenitsyn, born in 1918 in the city of Kislovtsk in the Caucasus. Former Soviet Russian writer. 1941 Graduated from the Department of Physics and Mathematics of Rostov University. Joined the army after the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War. 1942 Entered the artillery school for training. After graduation, he served as a first lieutenant artillery company commander. 1945 Arrested on the front line for "political issues" and sentenced to 8 years in prison. Exiled to Kazakhstan after serving his sentence. Exiled in 1956 and rehabilitated the following year. In 1962, Khrushchev approved the publication of the novella "One Day in the Labor Camp of Ivan Denisovich", which caused strong repercussions at home and abroad. On May 16, 1967, an "open letter" was distributed to the Fourth Congress of Soviet Writers, demanding "the abolition of all open and secret censorship of literary and artistic creation". In 1968, the novels "Cancer Ward" and "The First Circle", which condemned the Soviet labor camps, were published in Western Europe. In 1970, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. The following year, Germany and France published his novel "August 1914" at the same time. In December 1973, the first volume of his "Gulag Islands" was published in Paris (the whole book consisted of 3 volumes, which were published in 1976). This is a frivolous novel that accuses Soviet society of "inhuman and brutal rule" since the October Revolution. Solzhenitsyn was detained on February 12, 1974. The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union announced that he would be stripped of Soviet citizenship, deported, and left the Soviet Union for West Germany and Switzerland. In October 1974, the US Senate awarded him the title of "Honorary Citizen of the United States" and later moved to the United States.