Published in the 13 March 1988 issue of the daily newspaper “Sovetskaia Rossiia” (Soviet Russia), this letter by chemistry lecturer and Stalinist apologist Nina Andreeva (1938-2020) sparked tens of thousands of public responses, revealing that conservative currents in the Communist Party and beyond now faced strong resistance from a glasnost-empowered public.

A 1991 essay by Gennady Trifonov, a gay former Soviet inmate, published in the journal Gay, slaviane (a pun on the exclamation Gei, slaviane!—“Hey, Slavs!”) in 1993.