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The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn suggests that the term 'reform' is a deceptive cover-up for the hidden agenda of stealing a country's national heritage.
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a Russian author, philosopher, historian and Nobel Prize laureate.
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