Joseph Brodsky, the Russian Jewish poet who was jailed five years ago as a “work-shy parasite,” has been freed, according to reports today from Moscow. The 25-year-old poet was jailed after he wrote poems critical of Soviet life.
Disclosure of his sentencing touched off repeated protests from writers and intellectuals in the West. It was believed that his release was connected with efforts being made to free Yuli Daniel and Andrewi Sinyavsky, two other Soviet authors who were recently sentenced to long prison terms for smuggling their manuscripts out of the Soviet Union which were published in London, Paris and New York
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