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By Tom Kemp
1972Tom KempSoviet UnionCulture and reviews Read the scan at ETOL (PDF) →Read from the scan by machine and not corrected: headlines and words can be misread, and a caption or advert can run into the text. For anything you quote, read the scan.
The Soviet authorities are putting pressure on leading oppositionists and their families to force them to leave the country in a new attempt to liquidate the movement. They are threatened with deportation to Siberia if they do not leave.
Among a number of families who have passed through Vienna recently on their way to exile are Yuri Stein and his wife, a sister-in-law of novelist 3x33 Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
Stein, who worked in the film industry, claimed that he had been forced to leave the Soviet Union. He said he had been under intense pressure and would otherwise have been sent to a labour camp.
Other dissidents are being confined in psychiatric wards, although they are perfectly sane. Stein said that Solzhenitsyn had also been under heavy pressure, but would refuse to leave the Soviet Union, even if the alternative was imprisonment in Siberia.
Solzhenitsyn, who received the Nobel prize for literature last year, refused to go to Stockholm to receive it for fear that he would be prevented from his land. A Swedish official was prevented from entering the Soviet Union to present the prize to Solzhenitsyn privately.
asia Solzhenitsyn Another well-known literary figure to arrive in Vienna is poet Josif Brodsky, who was sentenced to five years' hard labour in 1964 for writing what