The beginning of 1970 in the USSR was marked by a political scandal. On March 19, an open letter of Andrei Sakharov, Valentina Turchin and Roy Medvedev appeared to the heads of the party and the government with a demand, or rather, by the proposal of the democratization of society. Just the Tanks of the Warsaw Treaty were punctured by Prague, samizdat was defeated in the USSR, the name of Stalin began to flicker increasingly, which, after the 20th Congress of the CPSU, was under an unspoken ban.