Request for an Abortion
Anisimov, Telegram to Kalinin.
A telegram from a serviceman in Khabarovsk in the Soviet Far East to the Supreme Soviet in Moscow perhaps provided the best illustration of what kind of everyday conflicts criminalization of abortion created.
Original Source: GARF, f. 7523, op. 23, d. 209, l. 60. Origin
To Kalinin, Supreme Soviet Kremlin Moscow
During [a] vacation [in] Kislovodsk [my] wife Anisimova had affair[.] Result [was] pregnancyf.] Havefamily two adult children after twentyyears. Because [of] pregnancy Anisimova left family[.] Request decision terminate pregnancyU restoring family [of] four people [to] normal life[.] After termination Anisimova returns [to] family[.] Send your decision[:] Anisimov[,] army medical offlce [,] Khabarovsk
Source: Lewis Siegelbaum and Andrei Sokolov, eds., Stalinism as a Way of Life (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000), p. 201.