Second Arrest
On October 23, 1983, Marchenko was arrested a second time and again charged with Article 62 of the Soviet penal code, Anti-Soviet Agitation and Propaganda. Marchenko was declared a dangerous offender, and was sentenced to ten years imprisonment and five years of exile. He was held in terrible conditions, where he became ill. Because of international pressure for the freedom of journalists, he was allowed to move from the camp to a hospital. However, it was already too late.
On or about October 7, 1984, Valeriy Marchenko died in a Leningrad hospital. He is buried in the village of Hatne, in the Kiev Oblast. Today, in Kiev school Number 175, there is a museum devoted to the life and work of Valeriy Marchenko.
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