ON THIS DAY | 27 | 1994: Dissident writer Solzhenitsyn returns

BBC.com: "Imprisoned for a total of ten years for political dissent under Stalin, Solzhenitsyn was stripped of his citizenship and expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974 for attacking the regime. In 1990 Mikhail Gorbachev restored his citizenship and the following year dropped treason charges against him. The 75-year-old Nobel prize winner, Alexander Solzhenitsyn has flown back to his native Russia after 20 years of exile in the United States. As well as criticising Soviet denials of human rights, he was also scathing of the capitalist system."