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...extraordinarily confessional press conference at Moscow's Journalists' Club. Looking remarkably fit despite 15 months of pretrail detention and interrogation, the leonine-headed dissident recited a prepared statement in a monotone while smoking Bulgarian cigarettes and sipping Caucasian mineral water. Along with his convicted codefendant, Economist Viktor Krasin, Yakir repeated the recantations that had earned them both relatively mild sentences (three years in prison and three years of exile) at their trial on charges of subversion (TIME, Sept...
Latest Effort. Yakir, who has already served 17 years in Soviet prison camps, insisted that he had worked for foreign anti-Soviet organizations and received payment from Western journalists for passing on material critical of the U.S.S.R. The dissident movement, said Yakir and Krasin, was a foreign plot. For longtime Moscow hands, the chilling recital recalled the public confessions at the purge trials of the 1930s. Soviet spokesmen went out of their way last week, however, to insist that the conviction of Yakir and Krasin did not represent a return to Stalinism...
...Historian Pyotr Yakir and Economist Viktor Krasin went on trial in Moscow last week charged with subversion. No foreign observers were allowed in the courtroom. Tass reported that both men had freely confessed-in a manner that sounded reminiscent of Stalin's farcical purge trials of the '30s -to various acts against the state. In what seemed an attempt by the authorities to discredit Solzhenitsyn, their testimony supposedly described him as a sympathetic reader of a banned underground newspaper...
...last winter the underground journal Chronicle of Current Events was forced by the secret police to suspend publication. Gabriel Superfin, editor of the memoirs of Soviet Elder Statesman Anastas Mikoyan, was arrested last month on suspicion of having helped publish the journal, and Historian Pyotr Yakir and Economist Viktor Krasin have been held in jail without trial for more than a year on related charges. Amalrik was flown to Moscow to be questioned in the case but refused to cooperate-a fact that is believed to have contributed to his new troubles...
...Square to protest in case any pro-Stalin demonstration was held at the dictator's grave, which is now marked only by a simple marble slab. There was no demonstration, but Stalinism was commemorated in another fashion. One of the leading associates of the dissenting group. Economist Viktor Krasin, was arrested the night before as a "parasite" and sentenced to five years of exile without a formal trial. Afterward, one of the dissidents noted: "Today it is different from Stalin's time. Then nobody knew if he would be arrested. Today, you can keep your ideas to yourself...