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Category: Judicial repression

The Fate of Fritz Menders, November 1970 (17.10)

9 August 201423 May 2026

<<No 17 : 31 December 1970>> In November 1970 it was proposed to Fritz Mender, one of the founders of the Latvian Social-Democratic Workers' Party (LSDWP), and Klava Lorents, head of the Latvian cooperativists, that they should publicly dissociate themselves from Bruno Kalnins, the leader of the LSDWP, who is in emigration in Stockholm. Both … Continue reading The Fate of Fritz Menders, November 1970 (17.10)

US Citizenship, Soviet Police & KGB, Dec ’70 (17.9)

9 August 201429 July 2026

<<No 17 : 31 December 1970>> On 23 July 1970 Leonid Rigerman (b. 1940), visited the US embassy in Moscow. He was born in the USA [1] into an American family, which gives him and his mother Esther Rigerman grounds for taking American citizenship. * EMBASSY On 8 September 1970, after completing the documents necessary … Continue reading US Citizenship, Soviet Police & KGB, Dec ’70 (17.9)

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ARTICLE 19

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights
(1948 UN General Assembly)

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