The World - News from Oct. 20, 1988

A veteran Soviet writer urged the KGB security police agency to search its archives for works of art and literature banned and confiscated under Josef Stalin and other Kremlin leaders. In an article in the weekly Literary Gazette, Emil Kardin also urged the KGB to reveal the names of its officers who had saved manuscripts and paintings they were ordered to destroy so that they could be thanked publicly. The KGB, Kardin said, “would enrich our culture if it were to search its central and local depositories for manuscripts by scientists, writers, soldiers, theater people and priests that were confiscated when they were arrested.”