Soviet political prisoner Mikalai Lahodzich has died in Pinsk
A famous Soviet political prisoner Mikalai Lahodzich has died in Minsk today. He was 80 years old. He sent letters informing about human rights violation in the Soviet Union to newspapers at the beginning of the 1960s.
They were not published and Lahodzich sent one more letter to “Pravda” under the name of Pinsker from Palesse.
He was arrested and sentenced to three years of imprisonment in Mordovia prison camps “for anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda” in 1963.
Mikalai Lahodzich published his articles in the independent press and became a member of the Belarusian Social-Democratic Hramada after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
They were not published and Lahodzich sent one more letter to “Pravda” under the name of Pinsker from Palesse.
He was arrested and sentenced to three years of imprisonment in Mordovia prison camps “for anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda” in 1963.
Mikalai Lahodzich published his articles in the independent press and became a member of the Belarusian Social-Democratic Hramada after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
