U.S.S.R. Labor Camps: Hearings Before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws |
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Page 229 - In conformity with the interests of the working people, and in order to strengthen the socialist system, the citizens of the USSR are guaranteed by law: a ) freedom of speech ; b ) freedom of the press; c ) freedom of assembly, including the holding of mass meetings; d) freedom of street processions and demonstrations.
Page 184 - No. 1 5, from which he was not released until October 2oth. Oleg Vorobyov [see plate 63] was among those who signed their names in support of the Action Group's [first] appeal to the United Nations [and later received a six-year sentence in Perm].28 For three days AE Levitin was held in a preventive detention cell at the police station, and then he was transferred to Butyrka prison. An investigation was begun by the Moscow city Procuracy. (The investigator was Akimova, already well known as chief...
Page 116 - The camp on Wrangel Island was an experimental camp, where experiments were conducted on living people. The experiments were in the form of injections, diets, oxygen tests on people who were long declared dead but were alive at that time [1962] and were working very hard in the camp. The guards and the administrative staff were former convicts. The Wallenberg family is not convinced of the truth of the Wrangel Island testimony.
Page 183 - ... repressive measures taken against him, Altunyan continued to play an active part in the movement for the democratization of Soviet society. His signature stands at the foot of letters in support of the convicted demonstrators of August 25th,28 and also in defence of Ivan Yakhimovich27 and PG Grigorenko. He is a member of the Action Group for the Defence of Human Rights in the Soviet Union, which sent a letter of appeal to the United Nations. As reported in the previous issue of the Chronicle,...
Page 116 - ... others being the Working Zone and Hospital Zone. More than that, Moshinsky had firsthand knowledge because he exchanged many messages with Wallenberg. The following testimony of Moshinsky, although not totally accurate, clearly attests to the fact that he had been in contact with Raoul Wallenberg: There were also many others, including Italian war prisoners. There was also Raoul Wallenberg, who had been Swedish consul in Budapest during the war and who under the German occupation, aided by money,...
Page 187 - Ovsyanko, [Ihnaty] Tsehelsky, [Ivan] Lopadchak, [Fylymon] Kurchava, [Mykola] Deyneka, [V.] Sternyuk and others. Ritual objects (chalices, crosses, vestments, Holy Sacraments) as well as religious books, cameras, tape-recorders and money were taken away. At the same time one of them, Petro Horodetsky, was arrested and charged under articles 187-1 and 138 of the Ukrainian Criminal Code, ie propagation of deliberate fabrications which defame the Soviet political and social system, and violation of the...
Page 161 - ... The difference between the people brought into court as accused and those brought in as witnesses consisted basically in the fact that those on trial had engaged in recruiting people — even if only a single person — for the organization. All the accused admitted their (176) •guilt (evidently in the sense of admitting the facts of the charge) but not all of them recanted (particularly Ivoilov, Ivanov, Platonov and Borodin). The following were sentenced (term of imprisonment shown after each...
Page 116 - ... Swedish consul in Budapest during the war and who under the German occupation, aided by money, helped Jews escape from Hungary, through Switzerland, into other countries. When the Russians entered Budapest, Raoul Wallenberg was immediately arrested at the request of the military commandant of the city of Budapest and sent by special train to Moscow. He was then 27 years old, and was a handsome, educated young man. These are a few of the many facts which I know, having witnessed them personally....
Page 184 - Levitin-Krasnov's church and religious activities has been sent to the World Council of Churches, with copies to Patriarch Athenagoras, Pope Paul the Sixth and the International Committee for the Defence of Christian Culture. The letter says: We deeply deplore the fact that the Russian Orthodox Church finds its supporters amongst laymen and ordinary priests, and not among the bishops of the Russian Church, many of whom are barren fig-trees, completely under the control of the Council for Religious...
Page 148 - ... removing tattoos were also very common. I don't know how it is now, but from 1963 to 1965 these operations were fairly primitive: all they did was cut out the offending patch of skin, then draw the edges together and stitch them up. I remember one con who had been operated on three times in that w-ay. The first time they had cut out a strip of skin from his forehead with the usual sort of inscription in such cases: 'Khrushchev's Slave'. The skin was then cobbled together with rough stitches....