1938. Leonid Borodin was born

75 years ago, on April 14, 1938, Leonid Ivanovich Borodin, writer and dissident, was born, and after the collapse of the USSR, the editor -in -chief of the magazine Moscow. His father, Lithuanian Felix Shemetas, was arrested during the operation on National contingents and shot.

In 1956, Leonid Borodin was expelled from the Komsomol and expelled from the History Facility University for participating in the unofficial student studio "Free Word". In 1965, he joined the “All -Russian Social -Christian Union of the Liberation of the People” (VShhson), whose program, according to Borodin himself, was the three main slogans - the Christianization of politics, the Christianization of the economy and the Christianization of culture.

In 1967 he was convicted of anti -Soviet agitation and propaganda and was in custody until 1973. In 1982, he was repeatedly arrested for publications in the West and Samizdat and sentenced as a “recidivist” to 10 years in prison and 5 years of link. In 1987 he was released along with other Soviet political prisoners.

In 2002, he received the award of Alexander Solzhenitsyn “For creativity, in which the tests of Russian life were transferred with rare moral purity and a sense of tragedy; For consistent courage in search of truth. "

Borodin died in 2011.