Group case of the "Revolutionary Party of Intellectuals of the Soviet Union" ("Legion of Intellectuals")

The party was founded on August 30, 1970 Spinenko V.N. (Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR) and Davydenko (Davidenko) G.M. (Nizhny Tagil, Sverdlovsk region). The author of the RPISS program is a student of the Donetsk Polytechnic Institute. in-ta Spinenko V.N. In the program and articles, he argued that the Party and economic bureaucracy was in power in a socialist country. This "new class" (according to the terminology of M. Djilas, the author of "The New Class") he called the class of "trampolists" (deceivers), cat. does not cope with the historical task assigned to it - the management of socialist countries, which means it will be destroyed by the course of history (social Darwinism). He also argued that the class of people of intellectual labor ("intellectuals"), a cat, is rapidly growing in the world. cannot live in conditions of spiritual slavery. The desire for civil freedom is the dominant idea of ​​this "new class", its leaders are Solzhenitsyn A.I. and Sakharov A.D. The goal of the RPISS was to overthrow the "trampolists" - the CPSU and the Soviet government - in a revolutionary way. The RPISS party consisted of six young workers from the Urals and Donbass. The arrests took place in March 1971, the case was opened on 03/15/1971. In total, eight people were involved in the case. The investigation was led by the KGB of Moscow, Donetsk and Sverdlovsk regions. In December 1972 Spinenko V.N. was sentenced to a forced psycho. treatment (stayed in mental hospitals of various regimes for 17 years); Davydenko (Davidenko) G.M. - to 5 years in prison, Semiletov V.V. - by 4 years.