The peace movement in the USSR and the trust group
In Moscow on June 1982 some Russian citizens called a press conference for Western journalists and announced that they had formed "The Group to Establish Trust Between the U S S R and the USA." The conference was held in the flat of a 26 year old artist, Sergei Batovrin, around whom the group had formed. The group issued an appeal to the "governments and publics of the USSR and the USA" urging the "progressive and finally the complete abolition of nuclear weapon stockpiles and other means of massive destruction, and for the limitation of conventional weapons." Claiming that "elementary trust between the two countries had been lost" the group appealed to the two publics to share responsbility for the future of mankind by entering a "four sided dialogue" with the governments of the U S A and the USSR. They appealed to the publics to launch independent, unofficial peace initiatives and they appealed to the governments to "secure the conditions" for an international, free and open exchange of opinions and information
Article, 1984
Quadrant, 28, 198405, 37
1984