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Red Square Trial, Samizdat response
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FIVE LETTERS
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[1]
The 28 August 1968 letter from Natalya Gorbanevskaya (CCE 3.3) to the editors of Rude Pravo, Unita, Humanite, The Morning Star and other foreign newspapers, gave an account of the events of 25 August.
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[2]
A letter from Anatoly Jakobson (feature photo) replying to accusations that the demonstration was “useless”.
Anatoly Jakobson (1973 photo)
(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. 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 & anti-intellectual mood of certain groups of young people, the letter points to serious defects in the ideological education system.
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NOTE
These letters were uncensored and circulated unofficially.
That classifies them, to some degree, as samizdat.
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