Red Square Trial, Samizdat response, Oct 1968 (4.3)

<<No 4 : 31 October 1968>>

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The letter of 28 August 1968 from Natalya Gorbanevskaya (CCE 3.3) to the editors of Rude Pravo, Unita, Humanite, The Morning Star and other foreign newspapers: an account of the events of 25 August.

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[2]

A letter from Anatoly Jakobson replying to accusations that the demonstration was “useless”.

Anatoly Jakobson (1935-1978)

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[3]

A letter from Pyotr Grigorenko and Alexei Kostyorin, condemning the arrest of the demonstrators and the organization of the impending trial.

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[4]

A letter from seven people, including Pyotr Yakir, written on the eve of the trial and entitled “Those who will be tried on Wednesday”; a series of documents are attached to the letter.

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[5]

A letter from Vladimir Lapin, Zinaida Grigorenko and Leonid Vasilyev addressed to the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee.

Citing the conditions at the court building and the anti-Semitic and anti-intellectual mood of certain groups of young people, the letter points to serious defects in the ideological education system.

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