«No 8 : 30 June 1969» On 20 May 1969 a letter was sent to the United Nations [UN] Commission on Human Rights [1] with a request to look into the violation in the Soviet Union of one of the basic human rights, the right to hold independent convictions and to propagate them by any … Continue reading Appeal to UN, May ’69 (8.10)
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Solzhenitsyn Deported, Feb ’74 (32.1)
<<No 32 : 17 July 1974>> On 13 February 1974, after a prolonged and large-scale persecution campaign in the press, Alexander Isayevich SOLZHENITSYN was deported from the Soviet Union. The immediate cause was the publication of his GULag Archipelago by the YMCA Press [1]. Alexander Solzhenitsyn http://www.solzhenitsyncenter.org (1918-2008) * "GULAG ARCHIPELAGO". The circumstances surrounding the … Continue reading Solzhenitsyn Deported, Feb ’74 (32.1)