Samizdat underground media were instrumental in accelerating the collapse of the communist regimes in the Eastern bloc.<ref name=Downing/>
One of the most famous samizdat publications is ''[[The Gulag Archiplago]]'', and its author, [[Alexander Solzhenitsyn]], has been eulogized as the Writer who destroyed an Empire.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/11/opinion/solzhenitsyn-soviet-union-putin.html</ref>
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