Word: litvinov
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with a specially selected hostile audience, the Soviet authorities sought to curb information about the proceedings. They failed. Last week Western newsmen in Moscow received surreptitious copies* of the final remarks of two of those on trial: Mrs. Larisa Daniel, wife of the imprisoned writer Yuri Daniel, and Pavel Litvinov, the 31-year-old physicist grandson of Stalin's prewar Foreign Minister. The reasoned, quiet pleas of the two dissenters are an eloquent echo of all those, from Socrates to Zola, who risked their own freedom in order to defend the right of men to speak freely...
...LITVINOV: Our innocence of the charges is self-evident, and I do not consider myself guilty. At the same time, that the verdict against me will be "guilty" is just as evident to me. I knew this beforehand, when I made up my mind to go to Red Square. Nothing has shaken these convictions, because I was positive that the employees of the KGB would stage a provocation against me. I know that what happened to me is the result of provocation...
...LITVINOV: This is relevant. Who is to judge what is in the interest of socialism and what is not? Is it perhaps the prosecutor, who spoke with admiration, almost with tenderness, of those who beat us up and insulted us? This is what I find ominous. Evidently it is such people who are supposed to know what is socialism and what is counterrevolution. This is what I find terrible, and that is why I went to Red Square. That is what I have fought against and what I shall continue by all lawful methods known to me to fight against...
...latest uncontrolled activities of the KGB." During the five-day trial, sympathizers gathered outside the courtroom. A letter to "world public opinion" condemning the "witch trials" as "a wild mockery of justice no better than the purge trials of the 1930s" was circulated by Mrs. Yuli Daniel and Pavel Litvinov, grandson of Stalin's Foreign Minister and one of the most daring of the dissidents. Shivering so badly in the January weather that her friends had to hold her to keep her warm, Larisa Daniel was asked why, when her husband was already in a labor camp, she was there...
...invasion began, ex-General Pyotr Grigorenko, another frequent demonstrator for freedom, called at the Czechoslovak embassy in Moscow to express his approval of Dubček's reforms and his indignation at Russia's campaign. In late July, Author Anatoly Marchenko, a member of the Daniel-Litvinov circle, sent a letter to three Czechoslovak news papers declaring: "I am ashamed of my country. I would be ashamed of my people if I thought that they really did unanimously approve the policy of the [Soviet] Central Committee." A week later Marchenko was arrested. He is now serving...