 In spite of this, the history of the Union of Writers also saw cases of voluntary self-exclusion from its cadre.Thus Vasily Aksenov, Simeon Lipkin and Inna Lisnyanskaya left the Union of Writers in a show of solidarity following the exclusion of Victor Yerofeev and Yevgeny Popov in punishment for self-publishing.After the fall of Soviet Union, the Union of Soviet Writers was divided into separate organizations for each of the Post-Soviet states.