Soviet regime
Sir, — In her letter of October 7, Susan Taylor rather too readily accepts the statistic in Mark Nixon’s- article on prisons (October 1) that the number of Soviet citizens per 100.000 of the population in prison is 391. Mark Nixon furnishes no authoritative source for this figure — such as official Soviet statistics — which has probably no sounder basis than the figures that Alexander Solzhenitsyn so extravagantly lavishes on the pages of “The Gulag Archipelago.” Susan Taylor may, in the meantime, retract her confes sion of error until such time as she has more reliable statistic: of the number of Soviet citi zens per 100,000 of the popula tion in prison than those pro vided by Mark Nixon’. — Your: etc..
M. CREEL. October 8, 1982.
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