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3. For an analysis of this key document see S. Bloch and P. Reddaway, Russia’s Political Hospitals, chapter 6.
6. Andrei Vyshinsky (1883-1955) was a jurist who gave a legal facade to parts of Stalin’s tyranny. Trofim Lysenko (b. 1898) was an agricultural biologist, dictator of Soviet biology, and a charlatan.
7. In December 1980 Sorokin was given one year, but was freed in March 1981 after an appeal court changed the sentence to one year of correctional tasks and loss of 20% of his salary.
16. Stepan Bandera was a leader of the OUN, which fought an armed struggle against the Soviet regime in the years 1944-53.
17. Evidently the prosecutor was referring in fact to only one person, Anna-Halya Horbatsch.
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