Article: Former Soviet political prisoner Mykhailo Osadchy dead at 58

Christopher Guly
Ukrainian Weekly, The
07-24-1994
Former Soviet political prisoner Mykhailo Osadchy dead at 58.

Former political dissident Mykhailo Osadchy, whose book "Cataract" gave the world an inside look at the Soviet legal process and penal system, died on July 7 in Lviv at the age of 58. The journalist, poet and academician published the book in 1968. It describes his 1965 arrest and subsequent imprisonment of charges of "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda" (Article 62 of the Soviet criminal code).

He was a founder of the Ukrainian Helsinski Group and one of the most out-spoken critics of the Soviet regime in the late 1960s and early 1970s. When Cataract was smuggled out from behind ...

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