Edward Kline, ‘Silent Partner’ in Aiding Soviet Dissidents, Dies at 85<br />Professor Cohen said in an email that he, Mr. Kline<br />and Mr. Chalidze "probably moved more forbidden literature out of and back into the Soviet Union, roughly starting in 1977, than any other individuals — Americans, at least." He added: "Until Moscow denied me an entry visa in 1982, we moved scores of samizdat typescripts out and Russian language books in.<br />Mr. Kline became the principal contact in the United States for Andrei D. Sakharov, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Russian physicist<br />and human rights campaigner who was confined in domestic exile in the Volga River city of Gorky, east of Moscow, from 1980 through 1986.<br />Ed was in New York City, but absolutely central to all of this, as funder, sponsor, enabler." Ms. Feuer, too, said<br />that while Mr. Kline may not have played as prominent a public role as other human rights advocates, he nonetheless left a profound legacy.<br />Mr. Kline also established Chekhov Publishing in New York, which printed books in Russian by Joseph Brodsky, Nadezhda Mandelstam<br />and other authors who were banned in the Soviet Union.<br />Stephen said that Ed was an unsung hero,
