Remembering Aleksei Marinat: 'The Solzhenitsyn Of Bessarabia'

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Soviet authorities sent a promising student writer from Moldova to the gulag in the 1940s, just for the critical thoughts they found in his personal journals. Aleksei Marinat's story has echoes of the life of the late Nobel Prize winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Now Marinat's son is preserving his father's diaries.