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...worked)). I followed my customary routine, ordering a car from the academy's motor pool and leaving home at 1:30. At the Krasnokholmsky Bridge, a traffic-patrol car forced us to stop. From the front seat I saw two men get in the rear, flashing red IDs marked MVD ((for Interior Ministry)). They were actually...
...Perelygin, deputy procurator for the Gorky district. I've been instructed to inform you of your regimen: you are forbidden to go beyond the city limits of Gorky. You'll be kept under surveillance, and you are forbidden to meet with or contact foreigners or criminal elements. The MVD will let you know when you're required to check in at their headquarters. If you have any questions, call the KGB, either Major Yuri Chuprov or Captain Nikolai Shuvalov." Perelygin left...
...reached the MVD building around noon. I was angry at my legs and my heart for hurting, and at the wet snow and the piercing cold. When I found the right office, I was surprised to see it was the visa office, but there was a sign saying that it was closed. I asked a young woman at the reception desk what I was supposed...
...justice, Gennadi Kolesnikov. He charged me with violating Article 190-1 of the criminal code, which deals with "slander of the Soviet state or social system" and can lead to up to three years in a labor camp. In the next room, two women in Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) uniforms did a body search and looked through my bag. They took copies of the letters that were supposed to reach my children before Andrei's hun ger strike. Kolesnikov barely glanced at them, so it was clear that he was already familiar with them...
After the appeals court confirmed the verdict against me in early September, an MVD official took my passport and gave me a certificate saying I was an exile. He told me that I could not travel beyond Gorky and that I retained all the rights of a citizen of the U.S.S.R. except the right to leave Gorky...