Item COLD WAR 28/14 - Transcript of interview with author and dissident Lev Kopelev, 1996

Typescript transcript of interview with Lev Kopelev, Red Army, 1941-1945, relating to the Red Army's advance into Germany, 1945; the destruction, looting and rapes committed by Soviet troops in Germany, 1945; Kopelev's arrest for criticising the actions of the Red Army in Germany, 1945; the purge, ordered by Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, of the officer corps of the Red Army, 1937-1939; his journey back to the USSR, 1945 and imprisonment in the Soviet Gulag slave labour camps, 1945-1954; his reaction to Stalin's death, Mar 1953; his release from the Gulag, 1954; the denunciation by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, of the Stalin cult and the excesses of Stalinism at the Twentieth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party, Moscow, USSR, Feb 1956; the Soviet intervention in Hungary, 1956, and in Czechoslovakia, 1968; Kopelev's expulsion from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1968; and the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962. 13pp