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Dissident civil rights campaign reels under Soviet crackdown
A year after KGB raids on eight Moscow activists, Russia's civil rights movement faces a brutal crackdown. Hundreds questioned, homes searched, leaders imprisoned or exiled. Pyotr Yakir allegedly recanted, weakening the movement as Ukraine sees mass arrests and long sentences amid a Central Committee ordered crackdown in late 1971.
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Moscow
KGB
Russia
Leningrad
Odessa
Lvov
Novosibirsk
Democratic Movement
Pyotr Yakir
Yakir
Ukraine
Communist Party
Central Committee
Nixon
Andrei D. Sakharov
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Chronicle
Samizdat
Soviet Union
Adel P. Naidenovich
Lefortovo
Maj. Istomi
Israel
Kremlin
Vallery N. Chalidze
America
Medvedev
London
Sakharov
Yelena
Pushkin Square
Communist Youth League