In February 1967 Valentin Prussakov, a student of the Institute of Railway Engineers, was arrested in Moscow. During a search it was mainly his verses which were confiscated [note 1].
He was charged under Article 70 of the RSRSR Criminal Code. In February 1968 a trial was fixed but not held, and in March, after being kept for thirteen months in custody (in Lefortovo Prison), Prussakov was released and the case closed for lack of a corpus delicti.
NOTE 1
This was another case which began with the police discovery of writings about anti-semitism and with their author’s participation in “nationalist gatherings” (CCE 12.6, item 2) As the Chronicle later reported, Prussakov had in fact been persecuted in various ways since 1964, so in 1969 he decided to try emigration to Israel.
Valentin A. Prussakov, 1943-2016
In response to his application the KGB men were direct: “We won’t let you out… Your place is behind barbed wire.” Nevertheless, he began writing appeals to the authorities, and also showed his concern for the Democratic Movement by signing an open letter about the imprisonment of the biologist Zhores Medvedev. In early 1971 he had yet to reach Israel.
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