In the opposition

New Year's fortune -telling

December 31, 2014 Natella Boltyanskaya

Everything was already. Starting from the secret court session. If you look at the “news feed” of Soviet violations of human rights, we meet “chronicle of current events”, release 58 (1979): “Tatyana Velikanova’s relatives learned that on August 27 the trial of it begins, only in the morning of the same day - from a telephone call of a foreign correspondent.” “Open” trial - “chronicle of current events”, release 4 (1968): “Only relatives were allowed into the hall, and not all; On the first day, some, on the second day, the police said: "Yesterday you were, and today new relatives came."

Methods of influence on the defendants - “Chronicle of current events”, release 29 (1972): “The reason for the suspension of the Chronicle publication was repeated and unequivocal threats of the KGB organs to respond to each new release of the“ chronicle ”with new arrests - the arrests of people suspected of the KGB in the publication or the distribution of new or past issues”.

“Chronicle of current events”, release 29 (1973): “January 3, 1973. In Moscow, Irina Mikhailovna Belogorodskaya was arrested. According to her husband Vadim Delonya, investigator Zhuchkov, leading the Belogorodskaya case, said that her arrest was associated with the release of the 27th issue of the Chronicle of current events, although the investigation knows that she did not take part in this issue. Thus, the GB fulfilled its promises, given in November 1972 by the lips of P. Yakira,-"If the 27th Chronicle number came out, a person will not have to do with any relation."

It was much softer in places. Here you have a picture of the folk gathering - “Chronicle of current events”, release 65 (1982): “On July 13 in Moscow on a pl. Pushkin Komsomol members from operars from 16 to 23 hours. The operation was carried out "cleaning" the area. More than 100 people were detained and delivered to the operarian headquarters. Komsomol members from the Operarod detained everyone who was in the square for more than 10-15 minutes, having no tickets for the next session at the Russia cinema. The detainees checked the documents and made a personal search, asked why they came and whether there are often there; Reported, pl. Pushkin is a place for gatherings of drug addicts and dissidents, and in case of repeated detention, they promised to inform at the place of study or work. ” OMON with batons is our current know-how.

By the way, you know why the Moscow Helsinki group stopped in the USSR? “Chronicle of current events”, issue 65 (1982): “On December 23, a criminal case was opened against one of the three remaining members of the group S.V. Kalistratova. On September 6, 1982, she was charged under Art. 190-1 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR, the main points of which are precisely the documents of the Moscow group "Helsinki" from N69 to N181. In the current situation, the group cannot fulfill the obligations taken and, under pressure from the authorities, is forced to stop their work. ”

After the end of the publications of the human rights ballot “Chronicle of current events”, published since 1968, was the hunger strike of Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov in protest against the ban on traveling abroad Elena Bonner. The departure was allowed only after the Sakharovsky letter to Gorbachev, with a promise to focus on scientific work and stop public speaking if the wife’s trip is allowed.

Everything is recognizable. Want to guess? Any release "Chronicle" at your service. And finally, a photographic resemblance. The “Chronicle of current events”, the issue of 49 (1978), the process of Kirill Podrabink: “Alexander Podrabinek, during the interrogation, said: in an official conversation, the representative of the investigating authorities said that, in his opinion, there are circumstances that can serve as the basis for closing a criminal case against my brother ... The name of this person is Belov. He is the head of the Department of the Department of the State Security Committee in Moscow and the Moscow Region. He told me this in a conversation on January 4 this year. He also told me that the consent of my brother Cyril, my father and mine to emigrate from the Soviet Union will be an indispensable condition ... I also want to add that the charges, put forward against my brother, I consider it falsified and exclusively on the initiative of the State Security Committee. ”

Happy New Year! We guess the "chronicle" .