Group "Trust" ("Movement for the establishment of trust between East and West")

The creation of an independent pacifist group "Doverie" was announced on 06/04/1982 at a press conference for foreign journalists, which took place at the apartment of the Moscow artist Sergei Batovrin. The group included 11 people. Branches of "Doveriya" worked in Moscow (Debryanskaya E.E., Khramov N.E.), Leningrad (Podoltseva E., Yaremenko V.), Kuibyshev (now Samara; Ryabova M.), Lvov (Margolin N., Olisevich O.), Riga (Lomanovskis Yu.). The "Doverie" group turned to the governments and the public of the USSR and the USA, to the Soviet Committee for the Defense of Peace with proposals aimed at establishing confidence between the USSR and the USA. In 1982–1987 the group issued several appeals with initiatives of a pacifist nature. Members of the group, including minors, were persecuted by the authorities: expelled from educational institutions, imprisoned, placed in psychiatric special hospitals. From 1987-1989 a monthly newsletter (later a newspaper) “Day by Day” was published (editors - Khramov N.E., Debryanskaya E.E., Rubchenko A.). 06/06/1987 the "Declaration of Principles" of the independent peace movement in the USSR was announced. Along with the "initial measures of trust" (contacts with ordinary people of the West, joint meetings, etc.), the activities of the group included the struggle for the immediate withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan, for the demilitarization of public consciousness, for the rejection of military-patriotic education, for the establishment of an alternative civil service, and the provision of assistance to persons who refuse to serve in the army for pacifist and religious reasons. In the middle of 1987, a human rights seminar "Democracy and Humanism" was created under the group. Demonstrations, rallies, distribution of leaflets, etc. were held. In December 1987, a split occurred in the Moscow group "Doverie". The Krivovs, who advocated a more moderate program of the group's activities, formed a separate group, which broke up after their emigration in October 1988. Many members of the group joined the Democratic Union and the Radical Association for Peace and Freedom (founded in 1989 by Debryanskaya E.E. and Khramov N.E.).