And how should we treat his legacy today? Copying (and returning to its place) the monument to Alexander Solzhenitsyn in Vladivostok became a reason to discuss the writer's legacy again. The controversy over how to treat his legacy, almost twenty years after his death, continues to divide Russia. Solzhenitsyn criticized the Soviet Union, condemned repression, was opposed to Gorbachev and Yeltsin, but evaluated Putin positively. We tell you how Solzhenitsyn's views developed - and how they predicted the Russian-Ukrainian war. You can read the text of the historian Alexei Ubarov here. "Radio Medusa" is available on podcast platforms, YouTube and our app.