Word: daniels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trial begins," announced Radio Moscow, "with the interrogation of the accused Daniel. At the beginning of the interrogation, he impudently denies the obvious. But then, when the prosecution presents to the court a number of proofs, fright and confusion appear on his slanderous face. Yes, he is being pressed against the wall. Under the weight of the proof, Daniel is forced to admit facts of his criminal activity...
...publication in the West. But it really was Radio Moscow talking. On trial in a dingy yellow brick Moscow court house last week were bearded Critic Andrei Sinyavsky, 40, known as "Abram Tertz" in the West since his macabre manuscripts first appeared in London in 1960, and Translator Yuli Daniel, 40, alias "Nikolai Arzhak," in his underground work an equally outspoken short-story writer. In an 18-page indictment, they were charged under Ar ticle 70 of the Russian criminal code with disseminating "slanderous mate rial besmirching the Soviet state and social system...
...took Sinyavsky and Daniel, however, to provide the real departure. "Do you plead guilty?" asked Prosecutor Oleg P. Temushkin. "Not at all," replied Sinyavsky in defiance of standard Soviet legal response. "Neither in full nor in part," echoed Daniel. That left the prosecution with the rare chore of actually proving its case...
Writings of Sinyavsky whose pseudonym is Abram Tertz, and Daniel, whose pseudonym is Nikolai Arzhak, have been smuggled into Europe in recent years. "Both are very hostile to what's sacred in the Soviet system," Berman said. Sinyavsky, for example, once likened Lenin to "a dog baying at the moon...
Sinyavsky was sentenced to seven years of forced labor and Daniel to five. Because they were tried in the Supreme Court of the Russian Republic, they have no rights of appeal...