“The ‘Chronicle of Current Events‘ was born during the events of 1968 and is by its very essence the printed embodiment of the spirit of 1968 — based not on a political, but a moral and spiritual resistance, on the Word of Truth,”
write the editors of ‘Pamyat‘ [1].
“Its tenacity confirms the significance of this attitude in the interpretation of ‘current events’. In our opinion, it reflects the unity of the Resistance principle, which was first fully thought out ten years ago. Perhaps it is precisely the very existence of the ‘Chronicle‘ which forms the core binding the Resistance together …
“The ‘Chronicle’ is not only made up of the people who compose its text, but of those who send it information, those who copy and circulate it and, perhaps, even those who just read it.
“This is what assures the existence of the ‘Chronicle‘, its basic indestructibility.”
“THE CHRONICLE IS TEN YEARS OLD” (CCE 49.19-1 [18])
Editors of the Pamyat almanac (Moscow)
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“The Chronicle itself goes on, courageously and mysteriously, against all probability.”
THE TIMES daily newspaper (London, UK)
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“What makes the Chronicle so impressive is its utter lack of melodrama.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES daily newspaper (USA)
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NOTES
- Pamyat (Memory) was an almanac devoted to historical themes.
Produced and circulated, at first, as samizdat (No. 1, CCE 42.12 [2]; No. 2, CCE 51.21 [17]), it was later printed and published abroad (tamizdat) and smuggled back into the USSR.
(Not to be confused with the nationalist and anti-Semitic organisation of the same name, set up in 1980.)
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