29. Petr Grigorenko. Our everyday life, or a story about how criminal cases are fabricated against Soviet citizens who defend human rights (1977) Bound, 56 pp. A4. - Concealment of historical truth - a crime against the people (letter to the editor of the journal "Issues of the history of the CPSU" regarding the criticism of the book by A. Nekrich "1941. June 22") - 1967 Not stitched, 58 p. A4

Grigorenko Petr Grigorievich, автор

Genus. in 1907 in the village of Borisovka, now Zaporozhye region, Ukraine; higher education; Major General. Lived in Moscow, 1945-1961. worked at the Military Academy named after M. V. Frunze. 09/07/1961 spoke at a party conference in the Leninsky district of Moscow, criticizing the policies of the party and its leadership. Dismissed from the academy and transferred with demotion to the Far East. In 1962-1964. - Head of the Operations Department of the 5th Army Headquarters (Far Eastern Military District). In the fall of 1963, he created the “Union of Struggle for the Revival of Leninism,” which included 13 people. The Union produced and distributed leaflets criticizing the Soviet bureaucracy and official trade unions. Arrested 02/01/1964. Declared insane, deprived of military ranks. Sentenced by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR on June 17, 1964 under Art. 70 for compulsory treatment. On August 14, 1964 he was transferred to the Leningrad Special Psychiatric Hospital. In the spring of 1965, shortly after the resignation of N.S. Khrushchev, he was released, but not reinstated in his military rank. To feed his family, he was forced to work as a doorman and loader in a vegetable store.
After the first experience of creating the “Union of Struggle for the Revival of Leninism,” he became disillusioned with underground methods of struggle and was a supporter of the active and public activities of dissidents. Supported the national movement of the Crimean Tatar people. On 05/07/1969, during a trip to Tashkent for the trial of the Crimean Tatars, he was arrested and placed in a special psychiatric hospital. An examination in Tashkent declared him sane and not in need of treatment. Repeated examination at the Institute named after. Serbsky was declared mentally ill. Sentenced by the Tashkent City Court on February 27, 1970 under Art. 191-4 of the Criminal Code of the Uzbek SSR for compulsory treatment. He was kept in the Chernyakhovsk Special Psychiatric Hospital. In 1974, under pressure from a wide international protest campaign, he was released and continued his dissident activities. In 1976 he became a member of the Moscow Helsinki Group, was one of the founding members of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, then its representative in Moscow.
At the end of 1977, he and his wife left for the United States for surgery and a visit with their previously emigrated son. A few months later he was deprived of citizenship and thereby the right to return to the USSR. He died in 1987. In 1997, Russian President Yeltsin signed a decree “On perpetuating the memory of P. G. Grigorenko.”