Letter to Yeltsin from Solzhenitsyn, August 30, 1991. It turns out that when he established this in Ukraine, Putin behaved "like Solzhenitsyn", he was friends with Alexander Isievich and was under his ideological influence. If the Russian president had worked "like Lenin", then Ukraine would have gained in addition the territory of Krasnodar and Stavropol, so that the Ukrainian workers and peasants, touched by such generosity, would unite with the Russians in ecstasy.