19 Facts About Victor Krasin

Victor Aleksandrovich Krasin was a Russian human rights activist, economist, a former Soviet dissident and a political prisoner.

In 1947 Krasin entered the Moscow University's Psychology Department of the Philosophical Faculty.

Victor Krasin was sent to the Ozerlag labor camp along the Tayshet railway.

In September 1949, Victor Krasin escaped with four others from the Taishet transit camp.

Victor Krasin spent the first winter working in the logging camp.

In 1950 Victor Krasin was transferred to the Kolyma region in the USSR Ear east, in the Berlag labor camp.

Victor Krasin was transferred to the uranium mines and this skill saved his life.

Many miners became deadly sick in one year because of silicosis, but Victor Krasin was registered as a turner and worked the rest of his term in the mechanical shops.

In 1963 Victor Krasin graduated from the Economic Faculty of Moscow State University.

Victor Krasin completed postgraduate studies in 1966 in the Department of Statistics.

Victor Krasin was unable to defend his thesis because it did not correspond to Marxist standards.

From 1966 to 1968 Victor Krasin worked as a researcher at the Central Economics and Mathematics Institute.

Victor Krasin established relations with American correspondents Henry Kamm from New York Times, Frank Starr from Chicago Tribune and Tony Collins from Associated Press and passed them materials on human rights violations in the USSR which were then published in the US press.

Victor Krasin did not work for a year but meanwhile began contributing to A Chronicle of Current Events.

Victor Krasin was subjected to intense KGB interrogation and agreed to cooperate.

Victor Krasin subsequently wrote a book detailing the interrogation and the trial.

On September 12,1973, two weeks after Victor Krasin's trial, the United States Senate adopted a resolution which was an appeal to President Richard Nixon to demand that the Soviet government stop repression of the participants of the human rights movement in the USSR.

Victor Krasin since contributed articles to The Daily Journal.

Victor Krasin died on September 3,2017, of unknown causes.