West’s Reaction To Trial Criticised
(N.Z P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) MOSCOW, January 22. The official Soviet news agency, Tass, today criticised the “hullabaloo” raised in the West after the trial of four young Russian intellectuals for crimes against the State.
A Tass commentator, Ivan Artemov, said Western newspapers had attempted to present the four as intellectuals and writers but “in reality
not one of them can be regarded as a person employed in manual or intellectual work for the very simple reason that they never really worked in their lives.” Artemov accused the four —Alexander Ginsburg, Yury Galanskov, Alexander Dobrovolsky and Vera Lashkova—of never learning a trade and wanting to “lead an easy life.” They were found guilty by the Moscow City Court and received sentences ranging from one to seven years. Artemov said an open hearing had established that Ginsburg. Galanskov and Dobrovolsky became involved with an anti-Soviet emigre organisation, N.T.S., which was in the pay of the United States Central Intelligence Agency.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31585, 24 January 1968, Page 13
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