1988 "Manifesto" by Nina Andreeva

Thirty years ago, on March 13, 1988, the newspaper "Soviet Russia" published a letter from Nina Andreeva, teacher of the Leningrad Technological Institute, "I can't compromise my principles." It said:

“Together with all Soviet people, I share the anger and indignation at the mass repressions that took place in the 1930s and 1940s through the fault of the party and state leadership. But common sense strongly protests against the monochromatic coloring of contradictory events, which has now begun to prevail in some press organs ".

The letter gave a generally positive assessment of Stalin's personality and historical role.

On March 23-24, Nina Andreeva's letter was discussed in the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee. As a result of the discussion, Alexander Yakovlev, the ideologue of perestroika, published an article in Pravda on April 10 entitled "Principles of perestroika, revolutionary thinking and actions," in which Nina Andreeva's letter was called "a manifesto of anti-perestroika forces."