November 4 1972 years
В Mordovia, in the camp hospital, he died of blood poisoning after surgery Yuri Galanskov. Dissident, poet, activist of the Mayakovsky Readings, author of the "Human Manifesto".
Don't trust ministers, leaders and newspapers!
Rise up, you who prostrate yourselves!
See, the atomic death balls
the world has eye sockets in the graves.
Get up!
Get up!
Get up!
Oh, the scarlet blood of rebellion!
Go and break it down
rotten prison of the state!
Born in 1939 in Moscow, into a working-class family. He worked as a timekeeper, lab technician, and lighting technician. In 1960, he became a correspondence student at Moscow State University's history department. He was expelled after the second semester for his independent opinions.
I can’t sing hymns and praise
I'm not lying
I am sewn to my conscience
He was a regular at the Mayakovsky readings held on weekends at the poet's monument. One of the participants, Lyudmila Polikovskaya, in 1960 described:
A tall, lean, dark-haired man with impetuous movements and the eyes of a biblical prophet. When he ascended the pedestal, the square—I testify—would freeze. Not because his poems were brilliant, but because they were precisely the bold words that a young audience, unwilling to repeat the mistakes of their fathers, was waiting for. Yuri Galanskov's "Human Manifesto" was the banner and password of Mayakovsky.
He was an anti-communist and pacifist, advocating the creation of a "World Union of Supporters of General Disarmament." In 1961, he was part of a group that published the samizdat collection "Phoenix." It included, in addition to the "Manifesto," his "War."
Everyone rejects war
But, like a squirrel,
exhausted world
spinning in a cannon wheel
Petition birds - so what?
I don't give a damn about the faces of the questionnaires
They want human skin
to cover the body of the rockets
Phoenix 66 was self-published.
On December 5, 1965, Constitution Day, he took part in the Glasnost Rally, the first political demonstration in the USSR since the late 1920s.
He was arrested in 1967 and tried together with Alexander Ginzburg, whom he assisted in working on the "White Book" - a collection of documents on the case Sinyavsky и Daniel. They were accused of anti-Soviet propaganda and, simultaneously, illegal currency transactions. They were sentenced to seven years in a maximum-security prison (Ginzburg got five).
Life itself is tragic and comical. Life is what it does to us and what we make of it.
(from a letter to relatives, 1968)
He served his sentence in Camp No. 17A in the Mordovian village of Ozerny. He suffered from an intestinal ulcer, but received neither work allowances nor qualified medical care. He refused to seek clemency.
I have pain every day, about an hour after eating, all on the right side above the navel and below towards the ribs, under the ribs and even on top
(from a letter to relatives, 1970)
On October 18, 1972, he underwent surgery in the camp hospital. The doctor, a prisoner who was not a qualified surgeon, performed the operation. He developed peritonitis. They did not transfer him to a civilian hospital. He died on November 4.
The body was not released to the relatives. But they were allowed to place a cross on the grave instead of a plaque with a number.
I fall and I rise
in a semi-delirium,
half asleep.
And I feel how it blossoms
human
in me<>
It's me,
bound by law,
I shout the Human Manifesto,
And let the crow peck me out
on the marble of the body
cross
