<<No 26 : 5 July 1972>> SIX ENTRIES [1] At the beginning of April 1972, at a meeting of the Party Bureau of the poetry section (Moscow Writers' Organization), Bulat Okudzhava was asked to publish a letter in Literaturnaya Gazeta condemning the publication by the Possev publishing-house of an anthology of his works (already published, … Continue reading Extrajudicial persecution, July 1972 (26.13)
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Events in Lithuania, July 1972 (26.11)
<<No 26 : 5 July 1972>> FIVE ENTRIES * self-immolation (4 cases) [1] Romas Kalanta On 14 May, in one of the squares of Kaunas, Romas Kalanta (b. 1953), who had finished secondary education and was the son of a college lecturer, died by self-immolation, under the banner ‘'Freedom for Lithuania”. Three of his friends … Continue reading Events in Lithuania, July 1972 (26.11)
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