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...Anatoly Marchenko, a well-known dissident Soviet author, was sentenced in Kaluga last week to four years of banishment, probably to Siberia. The story of that case has not yet appeared in the West, but it will break this week in the latest issue of A Chronicle of Human Rights in the USSR, a bimonthly magazine published in Manhattan. Since its founding two years ago last month, the little Chronicle, which is edited by Valery Chalidze and Pavel Litvinov, a pair of liberal Soviet exiles now living in the U.S., has become one of the most carefully read and respected...
Moscow responded by insisting that the Russian officials and their wives were innocent victims of "a carefully planned hostile act against the Soviet Union." The Soviets charged that the first secretary, V.I. Marchenko, his wife, and the third secretary's wife had been seized while driving home from a dining and shopping excursion in Peking. They were, according to Moscow, pulled from their car by Chinese Public Security officials, bound, and taken to a street where "a big crowd had assembled and where movie cameras and klieg lights were ready." Then they were dragged out of the cars amid...
...Soviet intervention. Several weeks before the 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...
Russian newspapers give prominent play to horror stories about religion designed to equate the practice of Christianity with darkest superstition. The latest, timed for the Christmas season when many Russian infants are baptized, was the trial of Father Scherbatov for the murder of Vova Marchenko...
...Vova Marchenko was three months old when his parents took him to the Church of St. Michael the Archangel in Magnitogorsk (pop. 284,000) to be baptized by immersion, as is the practice of the Russian Orthodox Church. When the Rev. Ivan Scherbatov lifted little Vova from the font, the baby was dead-"the victim of a senseless rite," as Moscow's daily Sovietskaya Rossiya put it. Called before a People's Court, Father Scherbatov denied his guilt, contended that the child was ill and would have died anyway. But medical investigators disputed him, and the priest...