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...cost the PCF solidarity at home. While reaffirming its revolutionary image, the party has created internal cleavages. For the first time in history, the party's policies divide the communist C.G.T., the largest workers union in France. The party's perplexing silence on the exile of scientist Andrei Sakharov has alienated academics and intellectuals. Not since 1956, when Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin threw the PCF and its hard line Stalinism into a blender, has the party experienced such internal dissent. As the party splits, a tight-knit nucleus of traditional militants assumes control, ignoring the petitions of frustrated members...
...Soviet authorities have sent the courageous and brilliant Andrei Sakharov to internal exile [Feb. 4]. We are sharply reminded of the Soviets' general policy of clamping down on dissidents in anticipation of the increased presence of Westerners during the Moscow Olympics...
...They threatened to make an Afghanistan out of my apartment," said Andrei Sakharov. He was referring to two armed men who last week forced their way into his apartment in Gorky, the city where the U.S.S.R.'s most celebrated dissident is now in exile. The intruders warned that the 1975 Nobel Peace prizewinner would soon be incarcerated in a KGB psychiatric facility unless he stopped issuing statements to the Western press...
...Western protests over the internal exile of Nobel Peace Prizewinner Andrei Sakharov, the Literary Gazette responded by blaming the famed dissident's downfall on the West. Addressing Sakharov's supporters, the paper said: "By gratifying his inordinate vanity, you yourselves pushed him into the abyss of lies and slander into which he has fallen...
...Literary Gazette charged that Sakharov had "actively opposed detente and the peace efforts of the Soviet government." Despite hints that he might be tried for treason by continuing to speak out against official policy, Sakharov would not be silenced. In a written statement sent from his new home of exile in Gorky, he charged that the Kremlin had "launched a broad demagogic campaign aiming to strengthen its military superiority" in the world. The culmination of this dangerous Soviet policy, said Sakharov, was the "invasion of Afghanistan, where Soviet soldiers are waging merciless war" against the people of Afghanistan...