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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The Death of Vladimir Shelkov (1896-1980)
<<No. 56 : 30 April 1980>> On 27 January 1980, Vladimir Andreyevich SHELKOV (CCE 55.7), Chairman of the All-Union Church of True and Free Seventh-Day Adventists [1], died at the age of 84. He was being held in a strict-regime camp in the Yakut ASSR (Soviet Far East), where he was serving a sentence. Vladimir … Continue reading The Death of Vladimir Shelkov (1896-1980)
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