Letter from a group of Soviet writers about Solzhenitsyn and Sakharov
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Letter from a group of Soviet writers about Solzhenitsyn and Sakharov (Russian: Письмо группы советских писателей о Солженицыне и Сахарове) was an open letter to the editor of the newspaper Pravda, the mouthpiece of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, from a group of famous Soviet writers in connection with "anti-Soviet actions and speeches" of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov. It was published in Pravda newspaper on August 31, 1973.[1]
Dear Comrade Editor! Having read the letter published in your newspaper by members of the USSR Academy of Sciences regarding the behavior of Academician Sakharov, discrediting the honor and dignity of the Soviet scientist, we consider it our duty to express full agreement with the position of the authors of the letter...
— Soviet writers, "Letter from a group of Soviet writers about Solzhenitsyn and Sakharov", Pravda (31.08.1973)
The letter praised the Soviet Union's posture in the world and criticized the two dissidents as harming the Soviet Union's struggle in the Cold War.