<<No 27 : 15 October 1972>> Starting with the March 1971 issue of the Chronicle, changes were made by the translators in their system of transliterating Ukrainian and Baltic names. Previously these were transliterated direct from the Russian forms. From CCE 18 onwards, the names of nationally-minded Ukrainians have been transliterated from their Ukrainian forms … Continue reading A note on transliteration (27.15)
Tag: Lithuanian SSR*
Литовская ССР
Samizdat Update, May 1977 (45.20)
<<No 45 : 25 May 1977>> [1] M. I. Kukobaka – “Détente and the Defence of Human Rights are Inseparable” (3 April 1977, 9 pp) The author criticizes those Western politicians who consider that President Carter’s human rights policy is prejudicial to détente (‘dangerous illusions’) and maintains that the best guarantee for the observance of … Continue reading Samizdat Update, May 1977 (45.20)
Extra-judicial persecution, July 1974 (32.18)
<<No 32 : 17 July 1974>> Volkov and Golubev, students at the Latvian State University (physics and maths faculty) listened to and recorded on tape some excerpts from Solzhenitsyn’s book Gulag Archipelago, broadcast by a foreign radio station. They then reproduced the recording for their colleagues. They have been expelled from the Komsomol and the … Continue reading Extra-judicial persecution, July 1974 (32.18)
Events in Lithuania (26.11)
<<No 26 : 5 July 1972>> The self-immolation of Romas Kalanta and others On 14 May, in one of the squares of Kaunas, Romas Kalanta (b. 1953), who had finished secondary education and was the son of a college lecturer, died by self-immolation, under the banner ‘'Freedom for Lithuania”. Three of his friends surrounded the … Continue reading Events in Lithuania (26.11)
Persecution of Believers in Lithuania, 1969-1972 (25.7)
<<No 25 : 20 May 1972>> Amongst cases of the infringement of believers' rights mentioned in “the Memorandum of the Catholics of Lithuania” [note 1] (see CCE 24.6) is the dismissal of O[na] Briliene, a schoolmistress and believer, by the Vilkaviskis district department of public education. In October 1969, the headmaster of a high school … Continue reading Persecution of Believers in Lithuania, 1969-1972 (25.7)
Events in Lithuania, May 1978 (49.13)
<<No 49 : 14 May 1978>> This section is largely based on material from issues 32 (31 March 1978) and 33 (31 May 1978; Note 6) of the Chronicle of the Lithuanian Catholic Church. * At the beginning of December 1977, the workers at the Kaunas rubber-goods factory ‘Inkaras’ were given much lower wages than usual. … Continue reading Events in Lithuania, May 1978 (49.13)
The Trial of Gajauskas, 12-14 April 1978 (49.5)
<<No 49 : 14 May 1978>> From 12 to 14 April the Supreme Court of the Lithuanian SSR in Vilnius heard the case of Balys Gajauskas (b. 1926), who was arrested on 20 April 1977 (CCE 45). The judge was Radziunas, the prosecutor was Bakucionis, and defence counsel (appointed by the court) was Gavronsky. Balys Gajauskas, … Continue reading The Trial of Gajauskas, 12-14 April 1978 (49.5)
Samizdat Update (48.24)
<<No 48 : 14 March 1978>> L. Kopelev: ‘In Memory of Alexander Galich’ (February 1978, 12 pp) -- Alexander Galich, 1918-1977 * R. Lert: ‘Full Circle...’ (February 1978, 13 pp) -- An essay written in April 1977 (it says that the crushing of dissenters is reviving the patterns of demagoguery of the 1930s and 1940s, CCE … Continue reading Samizdat Update (48.24)
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