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Vasyl Stus (CCE 45.13 [4]) is working in a mine as a scraper. He lives in a hostel. He is feeling very ill. In September he had to spend some time in hospital. In June his wife came to visit him from Kiev.
V. I. Gandzyuk’s 3-year term of exile (CCE 44.19; his surname was there spelt wrongly) ends in autumn 1978.
Vyacheslav Petrov (CCE 44.19) has been allowed to go on a ten-day visit to Leningrad.
Alexander Bolonkin (CCE 45.13 [3]) has appealed to the authorities to allow him to travel abroad for an operation. He has received no answer so far [1]. In Bagdarin, where Bolonkin lives, a KGB office has been opened; it has three officials working in it (see also CCE 46.15.).
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Bohdan Chuiko has spent about 15 years in camps altogether.
In December 1976 he was transferred to the west Siberian village of Bakchar (Tomsk Region) to serve a five-year term of exile. He is a Group II invalid.
All requests for the exile to be repealed, or for the place of exile to be changed to Michurinsk city (where his wife lives, in the Tambov Region), have met with refusal.
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NOTES
- The poster Muscovite Professor Bolonkin is holding in his Buryatian exile reads: “I demand to LEAVE the socialist PARADISE for the capitalist HELL. A.A. Bolonkin”.
Convicted three times — in 1973, 1978 and 1982 — Bolonkin (see Name Index) finally left the USSR in 1987.
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