U.S.S.R. Labor Camps: Hearings, Ninety-third Congress, First Session, Part 3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1973 |
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Page 200 - 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 258 - freedom [. . .] to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers'. Therefore, Article 62 UCC is no more than a violation of the abovementioned documents, a Stalinist left-over. The formula 'agitation or propaganda carried on for the purpose of subverting or weakening Soviet authority', if the KGB men themselves determine the degree of the 'subversiveness...
Page 205 - Thou tellest all our travels, or our wanderings ; are not my tears in thy book?" Job, x. 7. Thou knowest that I am not wicked ; my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.
Page 222 - Convention provides that each contracting party to the treaty "guarantees the right of everyone to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.
Page 199 - ... 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 260 - KGB men are perfectly aware that they are not defending 'socialist legality' but the right to violate it with impunity. They have no illusions about their organisation and see it simply as a place where the pay is highest and there is no queue for housing. The KGB officer Kazakov brought me a letter from the principal of the IvanoFrankovsk Pedagogical Institute where I had worked. I told him, 'If anyone...
Page 140 - Really, they were not in full conscience these prisoners because they were in such desperation : from year to year, from year to year, from year to year, without hope ... I have seen in this concentration camp No.
Page 200 - 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 162 - ... 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 way. 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. He...
Page 263 - UN Declaration of Human Rights". On my demand to have it returned Krut answered: "It is not allowed to keep the Declaration." An assistant of the prosecutor with whom I spoke admitted that he never read it. At "political classes", which are conducted by semi-literate corporals for artists and writers, the prisoners at one time entered into a discussion with Senior Lieut. Lyubayev (camp No. 11) supporting the Declaration with arguments. To this he indulgently answered: "Listen, but it is only intended...