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...Odajnyk said that "the aim of the arrests was to stop the samizdat literature, but that aim has failed for the publicity of documents has only increased...
...Odajnyk said the dissidents were charged with engaging in "subversive anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda conducted for purposes of undermining the Soviet rule and social system...
Their activity has consisted of writing and signing documents protesting the closed, and therefore illegal, trials of their fellow Ukranians, objecting to officially published slander of their colleagues, and voicing a concern about the consequences of allowing the legal and constitutional violations perpetrated by the KGB to continue, Odajnyk said...
Most of their writings, although addressed and submitted to the appropriate official agencies. Odajnyk said, went unanswered and unpublished. Instead, they circulated in handwritten and typed copies--samizdat--and were eventually reprinted in the Ukrainian Herald, an underground publication...
...these men," Odajnyk said, "all consider themselves loyal Soviet citizens, adhering to the principles of Marxism-Leninism. None of them speaks of conspiracy or violence, of opposition to the structure and ideology of the regime, and none of them can be accused of promoting national bourgeois politics, for they don't even know what 'bourgeois...