Word: kuznetsov
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Anatoli Kuznetsov, 49, Russian author of Babi Yar, a documentary novel about the Nazi slaughter of Jews and others outside Kiev, who fled to Britain in 1969; of a heart attack; in London. Once an obedient party member who even informed on fellow writers for the KGB, he bitterly denounced his homeland as a "fascist state" after his defection...
...much of a fuss over them. Alexander Ginzburg and Georgi Vins moved temporarily to Vermont, Ginzburg to the baronially fenced estate of exiled Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn in Cavendish and Vins to the home of Olin Robison, a fellow Baptist minister and president of Middlebury College. Mark Dymshits and Eduard Kuznetsov headed for Israel, while the fifth exile, Ukrainian Historian Valentyn Moroz, is considering teaching at Harvard...
...prison garb, curtly informed that they were being stripped of their Soviet citizenship, and rushed to Sheremetyevo Airport. There they boarded Aeroflot Flight 315 for New York City. At Kennedy Airport in the foggy afternoon, the ex-prisoners of conscience-Dissidents Alexander Ginzburg, Georgi Vins, Mark Dymshits, Eduard Kuznetsov and Valentyn Moroz-were released into American hands, while two convicted Soviet spies were hustled aboard the plane for the return flight to Moscow. It was one of the largest, most surprising swaps in the history of U.S.-Soviet relations, and the first in which Soviet spies had been exchanged...
After arriving at their posh hotel near the United Nations, the newly liberated men wandered in and out of one another's rooms, exclaiming: "Prekrasnaya! Prekrasnaya!" (wonderful! wonderful!). At a press conference Kuznetsov declared: "This is just as incredible as if we found ourselves on the moon. It is difficult to get this through our heads. We still have not grown accustomed to free faces expressing good will." Two of the dissidents, Kuznetsov and Dymshits, then left for Israel; the other three are expected to remain in the U.S. Moroz went to a parade in his honor in Philadelphia...
Moroz, along with dissidents Aleksandr Ginzburg, Mark Dymshits, George P. Vins and Edward S. Kuznetsov, was exchanged last Friday for two convicted Soviet spies...