The mid-1980s were marked by the deaths of several dissenters as a result of the treatment meted out in the Soviet penal service's maximum-security facilities: -- Valery MARCHENKO in 1984 (Haass Hospital, Leningrad); -- Vasyl STUS in 1985 (Perm 36); -- Anatoly MARCHENKO in 1986 (Chistopol Prison). In all three cases it is clear there … Continue reading Death of a Dissenter
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Анатолий Т. Марченко
The Death of Anatoly Marchenko (1938-1986)
«Vesti iz SSSR» [R], 1986 (22/23-1; 15 December). On 8 December 1986 Anatoly Tikhonovich MARCHENKO (b. 1938), a political prisoner for many years, died in the maximum-security Chistopol Prison (Tatarstan). * HUNGER STRIKE For several months prior to his death, Marchenko had been on hunger strike, which he began on 8 August 1986 (1986: 17-7). … Continue reading The Death of Anatoly Marchenko (1938-1986)
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