[dynamic_sausage]

Yep. Likewise for Solzhenitsyn who denied Ukraine and its language the right to existence in no uncertain terms. See e.g. the 1990 essay "How should we organize Russia": (link in Russian)

https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BA_%D0%BD%D0...

[the_af]

Solzhenitsyn also held antisemitic views. But the Western world is more or less in love with him because he was an anticommunist. Oh, well.

That's why cherry picking quotes to show how "imperialist" classic Russian writers were because we currently dislike Putin's Russia is so silly.