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...first political show trial since Stalin's death took place in February of 1966. Two novelists, Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel, were charged with circulating "anti-Soviet" propaganda after they had sent their novels abroad to be published (under the pen names Abram Tertz and Nikolai Arzhak). They were condemned, under Article 70 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Republic, for "dissemination of slanderous inventions" with the purpose of "subverting the Soviet regime." Since then, an even more general law has been passed removing the need to prove subversive purpose. Sinyavsky got seven years' hard labor, Daniel five. Their...
...reputation damaged by the latest uncontrolled activities of the KGB." During the five-day trial, sympathizers gathered outside the courtroom. A letter to "world public opinion" condemning the "witch trials" as "a wild mockery of justice no better than the purge trials of the 1930s" was circulated by Mrs. Yuli Daniel and Pavel Litvinov, grandson of Stalin's Foreign Minister and one of the most daring of the dissidents. Shivering so badly in the January weather that her friends had to hold her to keep her warm, Larisa Daniel was asked why, when her husband was already in a labor...
...down on the Lobnoye Mesto,* just outside the Kremlin. Inside, Soviet leaders were holding meetings with Czechoslovakia's top leaders. Suddenly, from the midst of the seated group, banners sprouted: "Hands off Czechoslovakia!" "Shame on the occupiers!" Among the seven demonstrators were Larisa Daniel, wife of Author Yuli Daniel, now serving a labor camp sentence for writing anti-Soviet material; Pavel Litvinov, grandson of Russia's wartime Foreign Minister, Maxim Litvinov; Viktor Feinberg, an art critic; and Poet Natalya Gorbanevskaya, who had brought along her three-month...
Like nearly all Soviet intellectuals, Sakharov bitterly attacks the trial of Writers Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel, which he says "has been condemned by the progressive public in the Soviet Union and abroad and has compromised the Communist system. These two writers languish in a camp with a strict regime and are being subjected (especially Daniel) to harsh humiliations and ordeals...
Died. Konstantin Paustovsky, 76, Soviet author (The Story of a Life), and dean of his country's literary liberals; of heart disease; in Moscow. Although a traditionalist in much of his own work, Paustovsky defended such rebels as Boris Pasternak and Yuli Daniel, was so well entrenched that the Kremlin could only let him have...