Helsinki Monitoring Group in Kyiv: The Struggle and the Ordeal 

When Leonid Brezhnev agreed to Western countries’ requests for the inclusion of human rights provisions into what has become known as the Helsinki Accords, little did he realize how much trouble that would cause him later. This fateful decision could very well have contributed to the collapse of the USSR in 1991.

Dissidents in the evil empire’s captive nations and Russia began forming public groups to monitor Moscow’s compliance with the Helsinki Accords. The Ukrainian Public Group to Monitor Compliance with the Helsinki Accords was organized in Kyiv on November 9, 1976. Next year will be its 45^th anniversary. This is the story of members, their struggle and ordeal written by me and published in the 1979 edition of The Almanac of the Ukrainian National Association.

The full article appears in the attached PDF.