After Release, November 1979 (54.16)

<<No 54 : 15 November 1979>>

4 ENTRIES

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VASILKOVKA (Dnepropetrovsk Region). On 2 November Vitaly Kalynychenko [¹] had his administrative surveillance renewed for the eighth time.

Vitaly Kalynychenko (b. 1938)

He was again given an official warning “according to the Decree” (CCE 46.15). He was shown over thirty letters — statements from people he had been meeting; the letters ended with the words “I ask to be protected from …”.

Kalynychenko now avoids conversing with people — he is afraid they might be provocateurs. Kalynychenko has taken back his statement renouncing Soviet citizenship and asking permission to emigrate (CCE 48.3). He is an economist by profession but cannot get work, even as an unqualified worker.

Because of this, on 7 October 1979 Kalynychenko staged a hunger-strike. In a statement addressed to the Dnepropetrovsk Regional Committee of the CPSU, he asked to be registered as unemployed and to be given material aid.

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TARUSA (Kaluga Region). On 13 September a judge again fined Nina Strokata (CCE 46.11, CCE 52.8 [3]) for “infringement of the surveillance regulations”, this time for not letting into her home a policeman who was checking up on her.

Since a series of such incidents directed at her and Lyubarsky in the spring of 1977, this was the first time it had happened. Her husband Svyatoslav Karavansky, who was released on 15 September (this issue CCE 54.13-2), was also put under administrative surveillance. They have applied to emigrate.

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KHRISTINOVKA (Cherkassy Region). Galina Didyk was released in the spring of 1971 (CCE 15.8, CCE 19.11) after serving 21 years in the camps: she was a leading figure in the Red Cross under the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), in the reconnaissance and communications section. She is now 67 years old. She is an invalid but receives no pension.

In the period Just after her release she received many parcels from abroad; she divided up almost all of them among others. For some time parcels have not now been reaching her. Recently the authorities have been trying to get her to sign a statement repenting about her past but she has refused. Assaults on her by hooligans have become more frequent. In the middle of October large stones came flying through the window of her room; one of them had a note tied to it, threatening to settle accounts with the ‘Banderite swine’.

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KRIVOI ROG. On 25 October Alexander Shatravka (CCE 53.21) was summoned to KGB headquarters. The pretext given for his summons (according to the KGB official) was the disappearance of one of the men with whom Shatravka and his brother tried to cross the frontier in 1974.

However, the conversation then switched to A. Shatravka’s trip to Kiev and Moscow. Shatravka said that in Moscow he had been examined by a psychiatrist (an expert of the Working Commission to Investigate the Use of Psychiatry for Political Purposes) but refused to give any more details. Later the same day Shatravka noticed an ‘ambulance’ accompanied by police driving up to his house and quickly made his escape.

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