Sentenced in 1965 to five years in a camp for having published -- in foreign countries -- works hostile to the regime, writer Andrei Sinyavsky, alias Abram Terz, went into exile in France and wrote A Voice from the Chorus in 1974. In the form of a letter to his wife Maria, he drew inspiration from his experience to denounce the repression in places like Camp Perm-36, in the Ural, where he was interned with other political prisoners. The very existence of this camp, which wasn't closed until in 1987, is a re
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