THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO 1918 – 1956. by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. 660 pages. (Collins & Havill Press). £3. A leading dissident authoress, Lydia Chukovskaya, was recently expelled from the Soviet writers’ union. At the end of a two-hour meeting to condemn her works, she was allowed to speak and told the literary bureaucrats that Russian literature … Read more
As President Nixon left the Soviet Union last week, many of the Jews arrested for the duration of his visit released from prison. They had held at Spulthovka, some 93 miles south of Moscow, far from Nixon’s itinerary. Among those released in the initial batch were Vladimir Slepak and the organisers of the abortive international … Read more
President Nixon’s visit to the Soviet Union has been proceeded by unprecedented preventive measures to silence and control active Jews who wish to emigrate to Israel. The KGB fears apparently that Jewish activists should be controlled during the presence of the many foreign journalists who are covering the Nixon visit. nearly 50 people have been … Read more
INDIGNANT Stalinists such as Solly Sachs (Tribune, June 7) and Joseph Winter (Tribune June 21) obviously need a personal 20th Party Congress to correct their views on the Jewish problem in the Soviet Union. Their ideological approach is one long discarded by the Communist Party and the Left in this country. They should perhaps ask … Read more
The fourth anniversary of the futile attempt by a group of Jews from Riga and Leningrad to steal an airplane and escape to Sweden was marked by hunger strikes by Jews in a number of Soviet cities. Jewish prisoners in strict-regime labour camps in Potma and Perm began a hunger strike last Saturday, the identical … Read more
The KGB is going all out to disrupt an international seminar organised by Jewish scientists in Moscow. Last week, well-known scientists, including Grigory Rosenshtein and Victor Brailovsky, received army call up papers. This would remove them from Moscow during the first week of July, when the seminar is due to take place. It could also … Read more
On June 15, a group of criminals, trying to seize a scheduled airplane were arrested at Smolny Airport. Investigations are in progress. It is almost four years since this small and at the time somewhat insignificant Item appeared in Vecherny Leningrad. Since then, the so-called “group of criminals” have become the martyred heroes of the … Read more
Friday was a red letter day for six hard-working ladies in London. For it was then that the Free the Panovs Committee first heard that the man for whom they had campaigned for nearly two years was going to receive permission to leave the Soviet Union with his pregnant 23 year-old wife Galina. But it … Read more
If Valery and Galina Panov arrive in Vienna today as scheduled, it will be the greatest day of their lives for them and for at least six London women. In early 1972, three avid theatre-goers, Pam Manson, Rosemary Winkeley and Joan Dale met and decided that someone, somewhere must do something for the well-known stars … Read more
A concerted KGB campaign to muzzle the voice of Soviet Jews is increasing in momentum. Over the past couple of weeks, dozens of telephone lines, belonging to Jewish activists, have been disconnected. Last Friday, Moscow journalist, Yevgeny Baras, was warned by the KGB that if his telephone was used for international calls, measures would be … Read more