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ITT; Daniel Kharms

Daniel Kharms, the Soviet Absurdist writer, was put for 5 years in a labour camp after having had loudly sand "God save the Tsar" in front of the NKVD headquarters in 1932.
In 1941 he was accused of high treason. Immediately after the war was declared on the radio he had visited the wife of Leningrad NKVD head inspector in person telling her personally the following thing:
"The USSR lost the war in the very first day, Leningrad will either be besieged and we will starve to death or we will get bombed, letting not a single brick on a brick… the whole proletariate must be exterminated, and if I will be given a enlistment order, I will give a blow into the commander's kisser. They can shot me, but I will not put on a uniform and I will not serve in the Soviet army. I don't want to be such crap."
Russian authors are about as open to suicide by proxy as american rock musicians are to the occasional drug overdose.
Kharms was proclaimed guilty but he survived. He was proclaimed unfit to be shot due to insanity and starved to death in an asylum for the criminally insane.

Everything from Stalin's archives, however, should be taken with a grain of salt. Many people for shot on basis of a quite inane indictment and today it's also known that one of his muses was constantly ratting on him.