Word: pyotr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...move in "Case No. 24," as the campaign against the Chronicle is called by the KGB, was the arrest of Historian Pyotr Yakir, 49 (TIME, July 3), for protesting Soviet violations of civil rights. The son of a Red Army general who was executed during the military purges in 1937, Yakir spent his childhood and much of his adult life in prison. Before his rearrest last June, he told friends that he felt he no longer had the strength to resist torture. He is reportedly under brutal KGB pressure to denounce his associates, some of whom are suspected of being...
...former army doctor who was not a qualified surgeon. Just before his operation, Galanskov managed to sneak a letter home saying: "They are doing everything to hasten my death." The treatment of Galanskov has aroused anxiety over the condition of other sick political prisoners, such as former Major General Pyotr Grigorenko, 66, a war invalid, and Writer Vladimir Bukovsky, 30, who suffers from a lung disease...
...freedom in Russia-was being subjected to increasingly ominous pressure. Physicist Valery Chalidze, a leader of the unauthorized "Human Rights Committee," has twice been summoned by the KGB and threatened with "repression"-secret-police jargon for imprisonment. This action, in the wake of the arrest of Dissident Pyotr Yakir (TIME, July 3), suggested that the next target would be the leading member of the committee, the world-famous nuclear physicist Andrei Sakharov...
...member of the Soviet establishment who falls from favor usually loses his dacha. When a top Moscow scientist recently applied for permission to emigrate to Israel, his country house was the first privilege to be taken away from him. These days dacha watchers are wondering if Pyotr Shelest, recently deposed as first secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party, will be able to hang on to his spacious villa and mile-long private beach on the Black Sea coast...
Yakir practically grew up in Stalinist concentration camps. At the age of 14, he was swept up in the mass arrests of 1937, the year his father, Major General lona Yakir, was executed during Joseph Stalin's purge of the Red Army. Pyotr Yakir was released after 17 years and rehabilitated as part of Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization campaign in 1956. It is rare-and therefore especially ominous-for the Soviet authorities to rearrest a former inmate of a Stalinist labor camp...