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Letter from a group of Soviet writers about Solzhenitsyn and Sakharov

Letter from a group of Soviet writers about Solzhenitsyn and Sakharov () was an open letter to the editor of the newspaper Pravda, the mouthpiece of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, from a group of famous Soviet writers in connection with "anti-Soviet actions and speeches" of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov. It was published in Pravda newspaper on August 31, 1973.

The letter praised the Soviet Union's posture in the world and criticized the two dissidents as harming the Soviet Union's struggle in the Cold War.

Signatories

  1. Chinghiz Aitmatov
  2. Yuri Bondarev
  3. Vasil BykaÅ­
  4. Rasul Gamzatov
  5. Oles Honchar
  6. Nikolai Gribachev
  7. Sergey Zalygin
  8. Valentin Kataev
  9. Vadim Kozhevnikov
  10. Mikhail Lukonin
  11. Georgi Markov
  12. Ivan Melezh
  13. Sergey Mikhalkov
  14. Sergey Narovchatov
  15. Boris Polevoy
  16. Konstantin Simonov
  17. Sergey Smirnov
  18. Anatoly Sofronov
  19. Mykhailo Stelmakh
  20. Alexey Surkov
  21. Nikolai Tikhonov
  22. Mirzo Tursunzoda
  23. Konstantin Fedin
  24. Nikolai Fedorenko
  25. Aleksandr Chakovsky
  26. Mikhail Sholokhov
  27. Stepan Shchipachev

Vasil BykaÅ­, in his autobiography "The Long Road Home", published after the collapse of the USSR, claims that he did not consent to the appearance of his signature on the letter, but on the day of signing the letter was read in the Vremya program, where Bykov was named among the signatories. Vasil BykaÅ­'s disagreement with signing the letter published in Pravda is also evidenced by the writer in a documentary about Bykov.

Mikhail Lukonin’s son, in his memoirs about his father, also disputes his father's voluntary participation in this signing.

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