While writer Myroslav Marynovych was a political prisoner of the USSR from 1977-87, he received letters from supporters who were organised through the international human rights organisation, Amnesty International.
‘A free person can never understand that unbelievable feeling when [as a political prisoner] you have in your hands a letter with a simple statement like, “We are thinking of you.
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