Editing Angela Davis (section)

===Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and political prisoners in socialist countries===
In 1975, Russian dissident and [[Nobel laureate]] [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]] argued in a speech before an [[AFL–CIO]] meeting in New York City that Davis was derelict in having failed to support prisoners in various socialist countries around the world, given her strong opposition to the U.S. prison system.<ref>{{cite book|last=Solzhenitsyn|first=Aleksandr|author-link=Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn|title=Warning to the West|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux|date=October 1976|location=New York|pages=60–61|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-tU6cfmTSwAC&q=warning+to+the+west+solzhenitsyn+angela+davis&pg=PA61|isbn=0-374-51334-1|access-date=January 5, 2021|archive-date=April 12, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240412145349/https://books.google.com/books?id=-tU6cfmTSwAC&q=warning+to+the+west+solzhenitsyn+angela+davis&pg=PA61#v=snippet&q=warning%20to%20the%20west%20solzhenitsyn%20angela%20davis&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1972, [[Jiří Pelikán (politician)|Jiří Pelikán]] wrote an open letter in which he asked her to support Czechoslovakian prisoners;<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times|author=Pelikan, Jiri|title=Angela Davises of the world unite|date=July 28, 1972|page=16|issue=58538}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Pelikan|first=Jiri|date=August 31, 1972|title=An Open Letter to Angela Davis|work=The New York Review}}</ref> Davis refused, believing that the Czechoslovakian prisoners were undermining the government of [[Gustáv Husák|Husák]] and believing that Pelikán, who was living in exile in Italy, was attacking his own country.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times|title=Czech exile's plea rejected by Miss Davis|date=July 29, 1972|page=4|issue=58539|quote=Miss [Charlene] Mitchell, who said she was acting as a spokesman for Miss Davis, took the line that people in Eastern Europe got into difficulties and ended in jail only if they were undermining the government. Those who left to go into political exile were also attacking their own country. }}</ref> According to Solzhenitsyn, in response to concerns about Czechoslovak prisoners being "persecuted by the state", Davis had responded: "They deserve what they get. Let them remain in prison."<ref>{{Cite book|last=Solzhenitsyn|first=Aleksandr Isaevich 1918–2008|url=https://archive.org/details/SolzhenitsynTheVoiceOfFreedom|title=Solzhenitsyn: The Voice of Freedom|date=1975|publisher=Washington, DC: Washington : American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations|pages=32|language=en|access-date=January 10, 2019}}</ref>