FIVE ITEMS
[1]
A lathe tore fingers from the hand of Vadim Gayenko in Camp No 11 in Mordovia.
Gayenko from Leningrad is serving four years under Articles 70 & 72 (RSFSR Criminal Code) for taking part in an illegal Marxist circle and issuing The Bell periodical (see below [5], Veniamin Joffe’s release).
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[2]
Yury Galanskov and Alexander Ginzburg (feature photo) arrived at Mordovian Camp No. 17 in May.
Their address is: Mordovian ASSR, Potma, Ozerny post office, postbox ZhKh 385/173. From the very first day of their arrival they were set to work sewing mittens for specialized work-clothing. A short while later Yury Galanskov was sent to the hospital camp for the examination of a stomach ulcer (see CCE 28.1).
Alexei Dobrovolsky is a member of the construction brigade now working at the same hospital camp. His address is: Mordovian ASSR, Potma, Yavas post office, postbox ZhKh 385/3.
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[3]
On 12 May 1968, Alexander Volpin was discharged after three months in psychiatric hospitals (CCE 1.3).
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[4]
Mathematician, Cand.Sci. (Physics &and Mathematics) Ilya Burmistrovich, was arrested in Moscow on 16 May 1968.
The investigation is being conducted by the KGB and he has been charged apparently under Article 190-1 (RSFSR Criminal Code). It appears that the real basis for the charges is his samizdat activities. It is said that the following were found in his flat: works by Sinyavsky and Daniel; a stenographic record of their trial; Untimely Thoughts (1918) by Maxim Gorky; and works by Tsvetayeva, Platonov, Kipling, Joyce and others.
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[5]
At the end of 1967 and in 1968 the following persons were released from the Mordovian political camps on completion of their sentences:
– Enn Tarto from Tartu in Estonia (CCE 15.1);
– Alexander Potapov from Lipetsk, formerly secretary of the city Komsomol committee. He was sentenced to five years under Article 70 for circulating an anti-Khrushchev leaflet;
– Veniamin Joffe from Leningrad, sentenced under Articles 70 and 72 to three years for taking part in an illegal Marxist circle and publishing The Bell periodical;
– Valery Smolkin from Leningrad, sentenced to three years for the same offence [1].
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NOTES
The Bell Affair (1975 photo)
- See “The Bell Affair”, Joffe Foundation (St. Petersburg) 2015 on this website. Those involved were: Valery Ronkin, Sergei Khakhayev, Vladimir Gayenko, Veniamin Joffe and Valery Smolkin.
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