peace movement exists.
aCule y aware . the burden of military spending the coluly gives favourable coverage to Western peace movements where these help divide NATO and prevent the installation of Cruise and Pershing missiles. But its aim is the renewal of T 100121 41149 damental opposition to US imperialism Within the Soviet an official Committee for the Defence of Peace is a haven for ageing academics notables.
(sane 1982, Group for Establishing Trust between the USSR and the USA proclaimed ILs ornalod aucws conterence Moscow. They said that the official Peace Committee was too closely tied to the Kremlin and an independent group was needed to complement tivities. Its initial membershin consisted ot eleven intellectuals. weapons and thence to a reduction of nuclear stocks; utilisation of the money saved for a joint programme of world imthe dissolution of NATO and the Warsaw Pact; opposition to the development of MX and new ICBM's East and West.
Last the Group issued a call for a congress of all independent peace groups to be held in Moscow in Autumn 1983.
Since its formation the Group claim to have collected 900 signatures • SUODUII allu established further Leningrad, Odessa and Novosibirsk.
Despite its avowed support for bOve t nuclear policy, the fact of the Group's independent activity on an issue which could have a wide response the Soviet Union has led to increased COTESUS from the KGB.
Within days of its formation Batovrin had been placed under house arrest: In August he was confined to a psychiatric aiolital.
Sergei Batovrin in psychiatric hospital subscribe For readers who take out a year's inland subscription Please send me as special offer .................. Send to Socialist Action, 328 Upper Street, London N1 2XP. subiected to. treatment with drugs against his will, and on his release made a compulsory outpatient.
Last July, during the officially-sanctioned peace march through the Soviet Union by Scandinavian women, every effort was made to keep the marchers meeting members of the Group including detaining two of the Group's Icaulle aucocIs Yurı Khronopulo Yuri Medvedkov, for 15 days charges of 'hooliganism' TVCGVCUKOV another Group member, Viktor Blok. have been subjects of the almost fatal allenuon KGB the steering wheel of Medvedkov's car mysteriously came off in his hand and Blok was almost run over by a truck.
At the time of writing Batovrin Sergei Rosenoer have been on hunger two tinued harassment of the that CND and the labour Group. It 1S uncialive movement offers their support to all independent peace groups in the Soviet Eastern Europe.
Messages of about the group's treatmem snoula be sent 1o. Soviet Ambassador, Kensington rat ce Gardens, London W8. SPECIAL
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the Second World War, the Soviet people unders- tand the horrors of modern war. However, no mass