 In 1968, Valeriya Novodvorskaya created an underground student organization whose purpose was to overthrow the Soviet state.On 5 December 1969, she was arrested in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses, where before the start of a performance of the opera "October" she was handing out and scattering leaflets written in verse form until she was approached by KGB men.She was later sentenced to indefinite detention in the prison psychiatric hospital in Kazan.