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Letter from a group of Soviet writers about Solzhenitsyn and SakharovLetter from a group of Soviet writers about Solzhenitsyn and Sakharov (Russian: Письмо группы советских писателей о Солженицыне и Сахарове) 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.[1]
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
Vasil Bykaŭ, in his autobiography "The Long Road Home", published after the collapse of the USSR, claims[2] 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 Bykaŭ's disagreement with signing the letter published in Pravda is also evidenced by the writer Igor Zolotussky in a documentary about Bykov.[3] Mikhail Lukonin’s son, in his memoirs about his father, also disputes his father's voluntary participation in this signing.[4] References
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