Alexander Solzhenitsyn7 July 1945
Sentenced in his absence by a three-man tribunal of the Soviet security police (NKGB) to an eight-year term in a labour camp, to be followed by permanent internal exile
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Sentenced in his absence by a three-man tribunal of the Soviet security police (NKGB) to an eight-year term in a labour camp, to be followed by permanent internal exile
Arrested for writing a derogatory comment in a letter to a friend, ND Utkevich, about the conduct of the war by Josef Stalin, whom he called "the whiskered one". Accused of anti-Soviet propaganda under Article 58 of the Soviet criminal code, paragraph 10, and of "founding a hostile organisation" under paragraph 11
Solzhenitsyn is taken to the Lubyanka prison in Moscow, where he is beaten and interrogated
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