Vladimir Nikolaevich Voinovich. The Anti-Soviet Soviet Union (№ 454353)

Writers also live separately from everyone. From time to time they “to study life” go on so-called “creative” business trips, sometimes individually, but most often in teams, visit “advanced” collective farms or factories, where they are shown the front or, more precisely, the fictitious side of life and are deceived as foreigners. The vast majority of writers (and there are more than 8,000 of them in the USSR) are completely unaware of the life of their own people, and those rare ones who know and try to portray it truthfully are persecuted by the authorities, accused of aiding foreign intelligence services and sometimes punished very severely.