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...mass meetings, artists and writers have been warned of ideological "deviations" and reminded that their art must "help the party." Some have been singled out for more specialized treatment. Iconoclastic Historian Roy Medvedev has been officially told to "cease hostile activities" against the Soviet system. Nonconformist Writer Georgi Vladimov was threatened with criminal prosecution by KGB agents...
...Georgi Vladimov, 51, a Soviet writer, hunches over a cup of tea in his small, fifth-floor apartment on the out skirts of Moscow. Outside, the sun has broken through the midwinter gloom, and in the courtyard below a father plays with his child among the birch trees. It is a scene of cheery placidity, but life is not placid for Vladimov. Like thousands of fellow citizens, he has learned firsthand about the implacable methods the KGB uses to intimidate those who deviate from prescribed norms of thought or behavior...
...team of agents searched Vladimov's apartment and then interrogated him for two days. They seized research notes, books and magazines for a novel he was writing about World War II. They took away his two typewriters, one with Cyrillic script and one with Roman script. "It's very hard to work now," Vladimov told TIME Moscow Bureau Chief Erik Amfitheatrof last week. "They could search me again any time...
...promising writer whose early fiction appeared in the 1960s in Novy Mir, the respected Soviet literary monthly, Vladimov has not had a word published in the Soviet Union since July 1969. His fiction evidently drew too accurate a portrait of how Stalin's shadow still hangs over the Soviet system. His best-known novel in the West, Faithful Ruslan, an imaginative story about a labor-camp guard dog who finds he cannot live in a world without prisoners, is available only to Soviets willing to risk passing along hand-typed copies...
...official vilification. Novelist Vladimir Voinovich complained last week that he could not obtain permission to emigrate, although a Soviet official had warned him that he might suffer an auto "accident" if he did not leave the country. One of the Soviet Union's most talented writers, Georgi Vladimov, has been under constant threat of arrest because he is the Moscow representative of Amnesty International, the organization that reports on political prisoners around the world. Early this month Vladimov was summoned to Moscow's Lefortovo Prison for interrogation by the KGB. In the process, Vladimov suffered a heart attack...