Word: ukranians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Police Asylum. Even worse than the camps are the prison psychiatric institutions. Dissenters are regularly dispatched to these asylums without trial, for indefinite periods and with no possibility of appeal. A typical case is that of Leonid Plyushch, a cyberneticist whose aspirations for Ukranian cultural freedom led to charges of "creeping schizophrenia." He has been given massive doses of depressant drugs. After two years in one of the U.S.S.R.'s seven police-run lunatic asylums, the noted scientist has been driven to a state of mental and physical collapse...
Amarlik is one of eight Soviet writers who have been invited by Harvard to speak. Omeljan Pritsak, director of the Ukranian Research Institute, said the institute has invited seven dissident writers to speak, "but none of them has been able to get a passport...
Included in the group of writers invited by the Ukranian Institute is Valentine Moroz. He has been imprisoned for speaking out against the government, and went on a much-publicized hunger strike two years ago to protest his treatment by the government...
...University has invited Valentyn Moroz, a Ukranian historian and sociogist imprisoned by the Soviet Union, to join the Harvard Ukranian Research Institute for the 1975-76 academic year...
Pritsak said when the University invited Moroz last November, it simultaneously invited six other Soviet Ukranian scholars. He would not disclose the names of these...