He went on to point out: However. the Soviet leaders do not view detente in these terms. At home. as they see it. detente creates both the necessity and opportunity for greater repression. Examples to substantiate Professor Bowies view are numerous: Soviet attacks on the illustrious scientist Andrei Sakharovthe sentencing of Andrei Amalrik to a new 3year prison termthe stripping of citizenship from Zhores Medvedyeva petty reprisal against the Nobel Prize novelist Alexander Solzhenitsynpunishment of Vladimir Maximov for the publication abroad of several of his novelsand the continued harassment of Soviet Jews wishing to emigrate to Israel. Most recently. of course. the wellknown dissidents. Pyotr Yakir and Viktor Krasin. have gone on trial for allegedly cooperating with a Russian emigree organization in the West.
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