COMMENTARY No 14 (June 1970)

No 14 : 30 June 1970

14.11 NEWS IN BRIEF

item 12 – Bakhtiyarov charges

A. Svetlanin’s The Far-Eastern Conspiracy [Dalnevostochnyi zagovor], in which the Colonel tells of his part in “Blucher’s anti-Soviet conspiracy” was in fact published in 1953 by the NTS-run Possev-Verlag, Frankfurt [PBR].

14.3 The incarceration of Zhores Medvedev in a psychiatric hospital

Pyotr Chaadayev was a thinker declared “officially mad” by Emperor Nicholas I in 1837.