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Category: Death of a Dissenter

Corrections to Previous Issues (26.18)

13 April 202113 April 2021

<<No 26 : 5 July 1972>> The search in the town of Uman (see CCE 24.2) concerned not E. L. Olitskaya but N.M. Surovtseva-Olitskaya, the wife of her elder brother, who lives in the same house [note 1]. * Due to an oversight, it was stated in CCE 25 that the fate of G. I. Bendersky … Continue reading Corrections to Previous Issues (26.18)

The Trial of Dandaron, December 1972 (28.6)

9 April 202131 May 2021

«No 28 : 31 December 1972» In proceedings which lasted from 18 to 25 December 1972, B.D. Dandaron, a research officer of the Buryat Institute of Social Sciences of the USSR Academy of Sciences (Siberian Section), was tried in the people’s court of the October district of the city of Ulan-Ude. Bidia Dandaron, 1914-1974 Dandaron … Continue reading The Trial of Dandaron, December 1972 (28.6)

Yefim Davidovich, 1924-1976 (40.6)

12 January 20219 April 2021

<<No. 40 : 20 May 1976>> Yefim Aronovich DAVIDOVICH, retired colonel and veteran of the Second World War, holder of eighteen medals and military honours, died on 24 April 1976; he spent his last years fighting for the right of Soviet Jews to emigrate to Israel. Davidovich (right) with other Jewish war heroes Alshansky and … Continue reading Yefim Davidovich, 1924-1976 (40.6)

The Death of Vladimir Shelkov (1896-1980)

3 January 202121 February 2022

On 27 January 1980, Vladimir Andreyevich SHELKOV (CCE 55.7), Chairman of the All-Union Church of True and Free Seventh-Day Adventists, died at the age of 84 in a strict-regime camp in Yakutia [Soviet Far East] where he was serving a sentence. Vladimir Shelkov, 1896-1980 Shelkov was the third person to be appointed chairman of the … Continue reading The Death of Vladimir Shelkov (1896-1980)

The death of Vasyl Stus (1938-1985)

3 January 202113 January 2021

Vesti iz SSSR, 1985 (17-1, 15 September) On 4 September 1985, political prisoner Vasyl STUS died in special-regime camp Perm 389/36-1. Vasyl Stus (b. 8 January 1938) was an outstanding Ukrainian poet and journalist. First arrested in January 1972 for publishing a poetry collection abroad and writing a number of articles for samizdat, he was … Continue reading The death of Vasyl Stus (1938-1985)

The Death of Valery Marchenko (1947-1984)

30 December 202013 January 2021

Vesti iz SSSR, 1984 (19/20-1, 31 October). Valery MARCHENKO died in Leningrad on 7 October 1984. On 13 September he was flown from the Perm-35 camp for political prisoners to the penal system's F.J Haass Hospital at 1 Khokhryakov Street in Leningrad. He was already in a critical condition: his kidneys had ceased to function … Continue reading The Death of Valery Marchenko (1947-1984)

The Death of Anatoly Marchenko (1938-1986)

26 March 202013 January 2021

Vesti iz SSSR, 1986 (22/23-1, 15 December). On 8 December 1986 Anatoly MARCHENKO (b. 1938), a political prisoner for many years, died in the maximum-security Chistopol Prison (Tatarstan). For several months prior to his death, he had been on hunger strike, started on 8 August 1986 (1986: 17-7, 15 September). Official reports of his death … Continue reading The Death of Anatoly Marchenko (1938-1986)

Grigory Podyapolsky, 1926-1976 (39.1)

25 March 20188 May 2021

<< No 39 : 12 March 1976 >> On the night of 8/9 March 1976, Grigory Sergeyevich PODYAPOLSKY, a scientist and poet, one of those who has fought openly and courageously for human rights in the USSR, died of a brain haemorrhage in a Saratov hospital. Grigory Podyapolsky had an exceptional, outsize and vivid personality. … Continue reading Grigory Podyapolsky, 1926-1976 (39.1)

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