The Nobel Prize winner, in an interview with Ostankino television, said, "This tearing off of Belarus and Ukraine from us is just the same as the division of Germany after the war. Historically, it must not endure."
Solzhenitsyn, 75, who recently completed a two-month odyssey across Russia after returning from a 20-year exile in the United States, said many Russians wanted to leave Tajikistan, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan .
"We must help our refugees from Transcaucasia and Central Asia because Russia's historic road with them has already been broken off. There will not be a life for Russians there."
He said many of the would-be returnees were treated like foreigners by the Moscow authorities.
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