1912. Lev Kopelev was born
Photo: Elke Wetzig 105 years ago, on April 9, 1912, a writer, literary critic and human rights activist Lev Zinovievich Kopelev was born. In 1945, Major Kopelev, who sharply condemned the crimes of the Soviet military in relation to the civilian population of East Prussia, was arrested and sentenced to 10 years in camps for the "propaganda of bourgeois humanism" and "sympathy for the enemy." In 1956 he was rehabilitated and a decade later actively joined the human rights movement.