Subgroups of solvable Lie groups are closed

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I was reading this article about solvable Lie groups. I quote:

"An arbitrary connected subgroup of a simply-connected solvable Lie group is closed and simply connected"

He refers this to a paper of Mal'tsev, On the theory of Lie groups in the large

I need a help to understand the idea of the proof. Thanks!