Solzhenitsyn collects Nobel Prize he won in 1970 40 years ago today (Dec 10 1974)


Video: 'Receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature'

(Tuesday, December 10, 1974, during the Cold War) — Exiled Soviet writer Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn took possession today of the Nobel Prize for Literature that he was unable to claim when it was awarded to him in 1970.