«Vesti iz SSSR» [R], 1986 (22/23-1; 15 December). On 8 December 1986 Anatoly Tikhonovich MARCHENKO (b. 1938), a political prisoner for many years, died in the maximum-security Chistopol Prison (Tatarstan). * HUNGER STRIKE For several months prior to his death, Marchenko had been on hunger strike, which he began on 8 August 1986 (1986: 17-7). … Continue reading The Death of Anatoly Marchenko (1938-1986)
Category: Death of a Dissenter
Grigory Podyapolsky, 1926-1976 (39.1)
<< 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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