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Aleksander Kan was born in Moscow.
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Aleksander Kan
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During World World War II Kan served as an interpreter in the Soviet Army 1944 – 1945. In the Soviet Union he wrote several books about the history of Scandinavia from a Marxist standpoint. He emigrated with his family to Sweden in 1987 with some help from the Swedish Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson, and Kan became a Swedish citizen in 1992.
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Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters]
He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
