I have heard complaints about you for writing in your abstract about the next book of Novyi Zhurnal about Shalamov. I didn’t like it, and I sympathize with you. Soviet repentances, of course, are a very sad thing, but they should always be taken on faith and should not be given too much importance. At one time, Alexander Ginzburg also repented in "Vecherney Moskve." By the way, he lied to me, to whom he had previously sent, on his own initiative, the original typewritten copies of three issues of Syntax. And then how courageously he behaved in the Bukovsky case! And now he is sitting out. One should not hush up "penitential" letters and articles, but one should not rush to draw conclusions from them either.