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The French philosopher and author Jean-Paul Sartre--long an admirer of the Soviet Union—criticizes both the USSR and its communist system following the brutal Soviet invasion of Hungary.
Jean-Paul Sartre, born in Paris in 1905, was a leading exponent of existentialism, a philosophical movement that celebrates the freedom of individual human existence while mourning its inherent meaninglessness.
Sartre refused the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature on the grounds that a writer "should refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.
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