Reports have come in of incidents in other cities. In Leningrad and the Baltic Republics leaflets condemning the invasion of Czechoslovakia have circulated widely.
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In Tartu (Estonia) a student has been arrested for writing a protest on a cinema wall. The name of the student is not known (update CCE 4.7 [3]).
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Lev Kvachevsky (b. 1939)
On 1-2 August, four people were arrested in Leningrad: legal adviser Yury Gendler,[1] chemist Lev Kvachevsky, engineer Yevgeny Shashenkov, and lawyer Nikolai Danilov. They were searched on an absurd pretext (CCE 4.5), and literature of allegedly anti-Soviet content was confiscated.
The real reason for their arrest was an attempt to write a letter about Czechoslovakia. The majority of those arrested had previously been subjected to repression [2].
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More detailed information about pending trials in Moscow and Leningrad will be known later.
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NOTES
- For more on Yury Gendler, see CCE 4.5 [2].
↩︎ - In 1966-1968 Lev Kvachevsky and his friend Gendler belonged to an informal circle which, among other things, became concerned about the two trials of the Social Christians (CCE 1.6) in Leningrad. (The photo above shows Kvachevsky’s sister Gemma, sitting to his right. She was married for a time to Vladimir Borisov, CCE 11.10.)
The group joined in the earlier Moscow campaign against the Galanskov-Ginzburg trial (CCE 1.2).
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