Dear Stalin, Dear Brezhnev, Dear

transcripts of all preliminary interrogations. . . .

“My . . . final suggestion will be still harder for you to accept. I propose that in view of the great emergency that now exists you should make an important change in the internal organization of the USSR. My recommendation is that you offer an amnesty to all opponents who have not yet been guilty of any crime under the normal civil code, on a pledge on their part of future good behavior. I suggest further that these elements be organized into a formal and legal opposition. … I need not underline the difference that would be made in foreign opinion. I need not underline, either, the fact no loyal friend of the Soviet Union could believe that such a development would do harm to the future of the USSR.

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transcripts of all preliminary interrogations. . . .

“My . . . final suggestion will be still harder for you to accept. I propose that in view of the great emergency that now exists you should make an important change in the internal organization of the USSR. My recommendation is that you offer an amnesty to all opponents who have not yet been guilty of any crime under the normal civil code, on a pledge on their part of future good behavior. I suggest further that these elements be organized into a formal and legal opposition. … I need not underline the difference that would be made in foreign opinion. I need not underline, either, the fact no loyal friend of the Soviet Union could believe that such a development would do harm to the future of the USSR.