 He claimed a group of Czech prisoners had appealed to Davis for support, which Solzhenitsyn said she had declined.In fact, Jiří Pelikán wrote an open letter asking her to support Czech prisoners, which Davis refused, believing that the Czech prisoners were undermining the Husák government and that Pelikán, in exile in Italy, was attacking his own country.Regarding Czech prisoners being "persecuted by the state", Solzhenitsyn claimed Davis responded, "They deserve what they get.