1. Vladimir Nikolayevich Voinovich was a Russian writer and former Soviet dissident, and the "first genuine comic writer" produced by the Soviet system.
20 Facts About Vladimir Voinovich
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Vladimir Voinovich was forced into exile and stripped of his citizenship by Soviet authorities in 1980 but later rehabilitated and moved back to Moscow in 1990.
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Vladimir Voinovich claimed that his father belonged to the Serbian Vojnovic noble family, although this is solely based on his surname and the book by the Yugoslavian writer Vidak Vujnovic Vojinovici i Vujinovici od srednjeg veka do danas which he received as a gift from the author during his stay in Germany.
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In 1936 Vladimir Voinovich's father was arrested on the allegation of anti-Soviet agitation and spent five years in labor camps.
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Vladimir Voinovich began his studies in Moscow and tried to enter the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute.
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Vladimir Voinovich's earliest published books were We Live Here and I Want To Be Honest.
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At the outset of the Brezhnev stagnation period, Vladimir Voinovich's writings stopped being published in the USSR, but continued publishing in samizdat, hand-written copies and in the West.
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Vladimir Voinovich was excluded from the Soviet Writers' Union the same year.
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Vladimir Voinovich settled in Munich, West Germany after being invited by the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.
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Vladimir Voinovich helped publish Vasily Grossman's famous novel Life and Fate by smuggling photo films secretly taken by Andrei Sakharov.
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Vladimir Voinovich continued to voice his political convictions after the fall of the Soviet Union.
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In 2001 Vladimir Voinovich signed an open letter expressing support to the NTV channel, and in 2003 a letter against the Second Chechen War.
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Vladimir Voinovich stated that her death might have an even greater effect on the world's opinion than the annexation of Crimea and the war in Donbas.
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Vladimir Voinovich was a member of the board of trustees of the Vera hospice.
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Vladimir Voinovich died on the night of 27 July 2018 of a heart attack.
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Vladimir Voinovich's Monumental Propaganda is a stinging critique of post-Communist Russia, a story that shows the author's opinion that Russians haven't changed much since the days of Joseph Stalin.
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Vladimir Voinovich accused him of creating a cult around himself, of poor writing skills and his alleged antisemitism, among other things.
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Vladimir Voinovich said that he had started the work on his book before Two Hundred Years Together was even published and that he didn't have patience to read it till the end.
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Vladimir Voinovich was awarded the State Prize of the Russian Federation for 2000, for his book "Monumental propaganda" about Soviet Neo-Stalinist legacy sitting in the subconscious of almost every citizen of the "free Russia".
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Vladimir Voinovich received Andrei Sakharov Prize for Writer's Civic Courage.