 Vladimir Bukovsky was sentenced to three years hard labour.Bukovsky attacked the legal conduct of the case in his final words, which circulated in samizdat and as part of materials about the demonstration compiled by Pavel Litvinov.Over the course of 1967 and 1968, the Trial of the Four motivated a renewed wave of "podpisanty" (signatories), individuals who signed a series of petitions against repression and re-Stalinization.