During a private conversation about the conditions of detention in Soviet prisons at a Communist Party reception in the mid-1970s, a KGB general is reported to have said that "conditions could not be that harsh, given that in Lubyanka prison there is some foreign prisoner who had been there now for almost three decades."
Under en privat samtale om betingelserne for de indsatte i sovjetiske fængsler, som fandt sted ved et selskab i midten af 1970'erne, rapporteres en KGB-general at have sagt, at "betingelserne kan ikke være så slemme igen, når der i Lubjanka-fængslet er en udenlandsk fange, som nu har været der i næsten tre årtier".