-·o Digriity r D ily M il Mond y Much 21 J n PAGE 22 ' ·Beat·h THE FIGl-fT FOR i -tufy'IAN RIGHT$ ' THE SOVIET UNION • 4 • by '· Ludmilla Alekseye va in an open 1ocieti everything can iie • • monitored But who could guarantee tw even h ope that It coulci -work In Ruillla • A group of brave Ruttian eltlzem took on the perllou1 taak of report1n1 when and-by whom those 1uaran ighta had be n l nfrlJIP Ci- · And almost from the •fart _the cynic• about detente were vindicated The voluntem were pereecuted hounded 1 nd lmprl1ined and If enough fun wu ill' ln thf Wett tlM'1 A YEAR AND A HALF ago in Hel1inki the R1J11ian1 In company with all their European nei hbours signed a d ec larat ion of human rig hts which should have opened a new era in world affairs Freedom everywhere waa lo be g uaranteed freedom of thought con1cience religltn and belief The end of the cold w a r seemed to be in sight the end of the Soviet pollce 1tate and the start of a more relaxed ora ftr everyone in Euro pe East and Well Realist• knew It mutt work in the west because were driven from their oojntry· r • ' Th ia 11 th tory of on t •f ttiose brav ' UPI • •As TOLD TO NICHOLA S t_ A· _ YOU probably never think twice a bout words like freedom and rights You don't have to They've been part of your way of_ life for a long lime But t o most or us In Russiaordinary Soviet clllzens- Lhey a rc words we 11011 't expect to hear t oo ortcn es pecially from our leaders You can lmnglnc lhcn how 011 r eyes bulged when we rend In l zvestla that Brezhnev ha d uc tually signed an East-West agreement in Hels inki gua ra nteeing us freedom and righL 1l a tt m d too 20 0 1 to b4• ll'UC Y 'U don't h ave lo be n 5tudent of R us sfa n po11Ucs lo rcnllsc wlmt l l i lt J that ls Jmaghu how our friend rrom the M1bJect peoples i •r Ru l l- Vk 111fntans l Lvlnns Oeor1tlans nnd Jews-homed i 1 s'hf r J i i I r peoples ' Old this m N n the mhnrit ' nalk ns or the Soviet Union were t o be tree rrom the diet at cs or Moscow 1 nd mnamc how they read on ' O the J flS iRJ c nbout rrcer mo •cmcnt and r1 r t3 't • ·•Lh for ctcn COWllrles Exiled in Siberia Y ou UlkC ltll t11a t for g'f«- nted Wu hope I tor U1t- best buc tea red Lhc worst BuL A h L could we do to sec tbnt the pron1I 3iies weren broken Ve t ulk Cd 8bottL H tmd dccldcd to call a P si oonrcrenct on May l l 1910 N ot n P-rcM ron rtttnre tor Ult State- controlled na rescm nth·es or Prnvdl a nd l rxcs t ia but n mecllna or W cm Journnhsts w e ·anttd the 1 j Ii f 1 THO f · A BETHEL L f 'I J • ' r A - r S L t 1 f J L t_ T He couldn't ffl wan oll her becaiue o hi• 'bad blo1N p y1 until Sakharov 88 -tii Wp ll • • lt ' Zcl - Di lilm wby be' Wll4D11 In Tahua I • wllue be'a realatered 'l'hal probably acen14 gUJy and pel y But Ujf l '8 lhe law In Ruu A A rdlnc' 'W that · he was allO'ftll to •Wt Moocow onlJI Wtatern Preas t report what we were doln i and the result a ol our work ThJa v •u eruclal to our plan Tl1ore was Mother reA on tor our PmiJ conlettn _ On the one luU1d wo knew u at It woold lmtatc ' the KGB tnormously But on fh l other hand we knew that II would protect us rrom t he KGB at least lar a time 'lbere Is only one thing lhat limit the KOB's cruelty - the _ ol bad publlclly In lhc west O r aim we polJ1led out wa s elmpl y to monitor how the agrttJntn wa s work1mt emonK our fellow · men Md women • ProfcGSor Yur1 Orlov n wcll•kno m ao •id physicist was mode Jeadcr We atlll consider hllll our lt11 1cr thouah he' now under nrrcgt E ena Bonner was another member She ls U1e wire of Dr Snkhnrov an c ·cn more d latlngulshed p hyslciist wlr ner ol the Nobel Peace Prl7 e and n member or the Soviet Acttdemy or Scimeca We were Joined by Pyolr Orlgor• enko who used to be n Ocncral In the RusslAJl Anny an4 Alexander Olnsburg who ruDS lhe Solzhen1tsrn fund or helping pOllllcnl J rlsoners nnd Amtoll Ma rctienlr o who I• exiled In 8ll crh1 or writing nbout his elCJ Crl• ntts ln prl son fo°z' n ut i n lYPlnl and d l slrlbuUng doc umenLe iilr t 'n J· i 1 roo 1 f nd then come bad to Tarusa bo Malva Landa one ol our membert ha• a lelld CI pbyoJcal cUltw'o at the unlve'nlly I n November o KGB mon auddcnly vlslcd him •nd told Um lhaL uuleu hla molller atopped worldnr or tho Helsinki P l i i 1r dU raO t was Be 'h il1 In despair nolbl n to do wtlh' htt worll and I never occurred to him that aucb lhl0g could happen Anyway be Ute • that there no Wa J ol ponruadlna h la mother to atop IIO he Just came for tho Umc bellllJ eemed to bo the end o that 'Ibe KOB still ftttD't aure wbal to do about ua The ' aoon made up' their mind 'Ibe real lrOUblo beran at Chrilln u We'd been expccllDJI II be l 'J ii'11 c ob •I0US that our v 'Ork w i i n Jia c1ni n' • l n t o ° C lli otnn· wb ' L we h ad no Idea or In MlvUJ co Wost 8 m rc or l u •· • A rreat·o2 Lion IIe told them t11n on the conlml'y we -ero • legal body doing a proper Ioli monitoring nn lnlernnllonal agreemmt that llnd been tan d by Leonid one U1ey pcalc d most becnusc n ter h s n ·e years In prison he cauldn't gol 1' 3lstcrcc1 to live In Moacow evtn U ough he hns a wile lwo small child· nn and an old mother lJ tte ' t I ayaqpatbl•e•• and l ld U nt ·• were on Illegal OPeJ'll• u• alone Oln•burs the J They •aJd It QUlle oponl_Y 11 'J '3i 0 a r1 J fto lhnl sc • 1e o t1 were u1tn1 ber aon n a h oetaa o en 4br i c lU O gih tna r f t1 rt °a°il O ' was -v hat f orm thelr d lsplta$U rc Vi OUld tnkc Delore Christ mu une Uioy l lt J The ooJTt-a pondent e are out or MO CO• and Wemm nenp pera don't appear For lnaLanee Dr l ak han v'a cloae lrlond Sercey Ko'la JOV -was arttsttd•at Cbtlatm ae Ume and so were DlOJ 17 others Wo II new about I hi• and allo•ed for IL On Oteember 24 we beard thAI the KOB had t rrea two of our aym 1 81 hu nl Ju ' 1L11in1N d 'hU a Voa ne enapya and V Jldlmlr Borlaov Then on U1e evenlns o Dc cmb« 15 Ihm were 1lmUltan OUS aeuchu bl t ho nar a or n vo ol our tlendl In Kltv lndllbtta ol the HelslAkl - 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