About the book: year / Secret Central Committee of the CPSU In addition to N 2138-c dated September 17, 1965 We report that the preliminary investigation in the case against A.D. SINYAVSKY and DANIEL YU.M., accused of committing a crime under Art. 70 Part I of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR, will be completed in the near future (before January 10–15, 1966) by the State Security Committee. The investigation established that SINYAVSKY and DANIEL in the period 1956–1963. under the pseudonyms Abram TERTS and Nikolai ARZHAK, they wrote and through an illegal channel transmitted abroad a number of works of anti-Soviet slanderous content, discrediting the Soviet state and social system. Such works include ARZHAK’s story “Moscow Speaks,” which is a malicious libel on our reality. The Soviet Union in this work is shown as a huge concentration camp, where the people are suppressed, intimidated, and embittered. According to the author, he is so processed “psychologically” that he blindly submits to all sorts of unbridled arbitrariness of the authorities, helps them implement the most wild measures that throw the country back almost to a primitive state. Events unfold around the monstrous author’s fiction that it is as if by decree The Supreme Soviet of the USSR in 1960 declared Sunday, August 10, “Open Murder Day.” This decree, the author mockingly asserts, is a logical continuation of the ongoing process of democratization of the country... an inevitable measure of the legalization of murder, which lies in the very essence of the doctrine of socialism. TERZA’s stories, collected in a collection called “Fantastic Stories,” are permeated with a morality alien to us, slander against Soviet people, on the system of socialism, on our reality. The author of this work slanderes the Soviet way of life, makes an attempt to convince the reader that Soviet society is an artificial system imposed on a people who do not believe in either socialism or Marxism, and are based on fear and apprehension. (fragment of original document)