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...expression. Last week the latest and most daring demand for reform came from a prominent Soviet nuclear scientist, whose 10,000-word essay -entitled "Thoughts About Progress, Peaceful Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom"-is being clandestinely circulated among a small circle of Russian writers, scientists and artists. In it, Andrei Sakharov, 47, demands nothing less in Communist Russia than an entirely free society enjoying complete intellectual liberty...
...After 50 years of full control over the minds of the entire country," writes Sakharov, "the leadership seems afraid of even a hint of debate. Yet the only guarantee of a scientific democratic approach to politics, economic development and culture is intellectual free dom and debate." Sakharov charges that censorship has not only killed "the living soul" of Soviet literature, but is stifling fresh ideas in other creative fields as well. He therefore calls for the abolition of Glavlit, the omnipotent censorship department that rules over the printed word in the Soviet Union, and urges its replacement...
April 11. Major General A. Sakharov, 57, of the air force engineers...