<<No 28 : 31 December 1972>> TEN ITEMS [1] Victor Fainberg, who is confined in the Leningrad Special Psychiatric Hospital, ended his hunger strike (CCE 27.6) on 15 October. Fainberg declared a hunger strike on 28 September, protesting against the transfer of "politicals" from his hospital on Arsenalnaya Street to the special hospitals in Oryol … Continue reading News in brief, December 1972 (28.10)
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Yury Galanskov, 1939-1972, Dec 1972 (28.2)
«No 28 : 31 December 1972» On 2 November 1972 Yury Galanskov died at the age of 33 in institution ZhKh 385-3 of the Mordovian camp complex. * Yury Timofeyevich GALANSKOV was born in 1939 in Moscow, into a family of workers. From 1959 onwards he took part in readings by young poets in Mayakovsky … Continue reading Yury Galanskov, 1939-1972, Dec 1972 (28.2)
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