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please return and continue your patriotic activity. the person these words were addressed to has spent nearly the past seven years in political exile. it was the man who created the first hydrogen bomb and received a number of the state's top awards but he was also the most widely known soviet dissident constantly hounded by the k.g.b. and oppressed by the party's leadership the man who drew so much attention was andres sucker of his life was full of paradoxes. now known as the city of nizhny novgorod colicky was closed to foreigners in the soviet times because it housed a number of secret defense facilities. urge you to come to your senses mr subtle as a person living among the soviet people you must surely see clearly what goals the

communist party and our people are striving to achieve on behalf of the twenty five thousand employees of our taganrog machine factory thank you to please come to your senses otherwise you shall lose every moral rights to carry the honorable title of a soviet citizen. a lady to town and serve as a retired transit police officer in the mid 1980's his unit was ordered to tales us of especially when he was at the station saying. his wife elin and gone off to moscow. for children to every officer had a specific task to carry out at all costs the overall task was to follow circle of and to ensure that no documents or anything else has passed on to him especially at the railway station and we were to ensure that he doesn't get to speak with any strangers. during summer as exile to gorky every facet of his life was closely monitored including his personal correspondence

hundreds of letters of support as arrived from abroad waiting to sit by the k.g.b. although the sailors were always supplied with a notification that their mail had been delivered. via dr saad it has been so long since we have had any news of her wellbeing we're very concerned about her health and the health of life elana been there when most anxious to hear from you and would greatly appreciate the response to this letter many people here in united states and in canada support and the principles for which he stand there in the course of the k.g.b. made a list of persons to restrict so her of from communicating with certain people the k.g.b. were sure that some of these people were acting on the orders of western intelligence services to collect information on the status of the distant movement in the soviet union and the involvement of prominent public figures of the war with.

satter of how to round the clock surveillance team assigned to him local k.g.b. staff to pictures of his daily routine. this was so they can present him to western media as proof that human rights activists sacral was alive and well. sahar of could feel he was being closely monitored and he understood he would have to live with it for many years. in the house across the street there was a k.g.b. department who watch sacrosanct every step additional surveillance was installed in the yard nearby there was a special transmitted the new to the signals of western radio stations. most soviet citizens were initially unaware of sacco's identity he was the so-called secret academic these are some rash shots of the cycle of staking a train ride to the town not smarts on any of the world's maps

a nuclear research center artisanal sixteen lease is where sucker of worked on his hydrogen bomb in the late one nine hundred forty s. . i worked very hard as i can sort it out to davis freeman importance to mankind. there is a balance of nucular onus to trim the to correct palace because that is exactly what standard c. is that these arms really have a leader. this is the footage from the designation of the hydrogen bomb developed by under a subset of the us isaak had managed to beat the united states in developing the terrifying weapon of mass destruction assassin of became an academic in his early thirty's it's one of the bomb tests resulted in two deaths a soldier on site and a little girl in a nearby village he left a strong impression on some girls despite the positive outcome of the new jointer

bomb. blast. they threw a small party in the tests to own a saucer of the main hero with and he was allowed to open the evening post because he also proposed the first to show everyone says i'd like to drink bombs exploding on test sites but never overtones and cities when you go down you've got a war that's not going to. at that time saturday i came acquainted with and this isn't historian yet if he was the first soviet author to write a book about the true personality of joseph stalin then you will believe in full cycle of himself again as a discovery will find out about the system of terror that was the foundation of our further cooperation is started writing about politics and self and i brought him underground dissident publications. intellectual freedom is essential to human society freedom to obtain and distribute information freedom for open minded and

fearless debate and freedom of pressure by officialdom and prejudices such a trinity of freedom of thought is the only guarantee against people being contaminated by mass myths which in the hands of treacherous hypocrites and demagogues can be transformed into bloody dictatorship. in the west the usa was an instance excess selling millions of copies to authorities response was swift to satire of was banned from working in how it is a must sixteen and moved to moscow there the academic attended underground meetings and took part in discussions on controversial issues soon sachar of came under the close eye of the k.g.b. they were killed back in those years they often results are to be designing the dissidents abroad birdsong or of was too prominent a figure. he also knew some state secrets though for no one even considered him

going abroad as an option. you recall was a well known soviet dissident he first heard sacral snail in the one nine hundred seventy s. while listening to radio broadcasts western radio signals were jammed by the soviet union but dissidents found ways around the static. it was possible to get rid of the radio jamming with. his navy receiver it was everywhere in the soviet union and with his help we could learn the truth of what was going on in our country and help us find out andrei sakharov stores is essays and his activities are very much the. distance to typewrite sacro they say they covertly posted them on the streets k.g.b. agents warn a permanent lookout for them this battle against the grassroots movement raged for many years before it was a middle of the women fire and way post of the year it was in residential areas and

back streets and courtyards are fires of the truth and the british soccer of himself was saying exposed the lives of the soviet press to publish about him. it will have a record it will. gradually human rights and privacy became satirise main occupation to launch extent this helped him overcome the grief caused by the death of his first wife like succumbed to cancer. a few years later sachar of met gillan and on a at a distant call trial. lawyer is an outstanding room of a strong character and she had a serious influence over andrei sakharov as you know he was very open and you can feel it is wife's actions did influence his behavior. in the 1980's prominent soviet artist sergey boucher of volunteered to paint sachar of

portrayed however the work remained unfinished he found the relationship in the center of family so intriguing that he wanted to include you in a boner because of her great influence over husband. as we talked of to suck off i counted seven slaps on a gave him changes every time he didn't like. something and then i started to draw her she was shocked even to draw me to and i said of course i will only draw you because you have a tremendous influence over here. shows in my sketch she tried to rip it out of my hands and i actually had to run with it to save it from her. but. took to heart any attack on his wife the author of the next story is soviet cia versus u.s.s.r. who took the liberty of making an offensive reference to born a jew response from dr satcher of and in public. so her

absurd firstly should apologise to my wife in public but is less refused so her of came up to him and slapped him in the face although not too hard the man left and the designer of gleefully sent a telegram to his wife i slapped him. december nineteen seventy nine afghanistan. after a special operation to remove the leader of his alarm soviet troops invaded afghanistan the soviet press would later called this fulfilling international duty several didn't hold back in publicly condemning the action calling it an aggression he would not be forgiven for his remarks. earlier drove up to the cousin comes to preach one hundred ways where a traffic police cars suddenly gulps a way. driver who just surprised the sounds and walked to the placement of all the

data players in the area and from south wales and to medtronic. create a show they regarded each of us and said that they were from eighty or in a district in fact they were from the g.b. . and they tried returned yet they would tend to follow the car which was also from the k.g.b. which came to the prosecutor's office where prosecutor become close sets of eight it was brought to the lords accountants authorities have decided that you should be exhausted this is your. the l skills of god keep in the new evil to area should have been key here and there a subset of and yelena bonner spent seven years of their lives together and during all that time there every step was monitored by the k.g.b. how many employees were watching soccer or how many cassettes of hidden civilians were shot and what reports were made it's all still

a secret to this day. culture is that so much taxpayers' money from a good idea to have a real mastery of the story of many middle classes in the developed world the middle classes seen its condition and fortunes under stress for decades and the. wealthy british scientists i. think. markets whine and scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy cars report on r.t. . moscow to live in their physical in-situ each of the academy of sciences the employees of the institute were the only people allowed to visit sacral in a city of go to keep his colleagues kept in touch with him during the whole seven year exile despite the difficulties such actions could bring them or gondor when

andre suffer of was in exile we did our best to preserve his office your rule nobody's of his place at the table signed bearing his name was still hung on the door of the subject it was attached to the inner side of the door and we separated by the wall god at the sign where you sit. no official soviet establishment supposed to enforce the law has taken responsibility for the fact of my deportation it is only up to the courts to establish either someone's innocence or to determine the measure of punishment and a term of imprisonment for my case is glaring unlawfulness. i mean walling going to keep all of some girls and foreigners potential contacts were under k.g.b. surveillance. when the academic arrived in the city even the manager of the local pharmacy was specially instructed by the k.g.b. on how to behave just sack of suddenly show up when you prepared you a state security officer approached me shoot his id card and instructed me as to

how i was to serve sucker of i was warned that if it happens to ask for permission to make a phone call i was to tell him that the resident was. in one thousand nine hundred eighty resident and gracemere know of was just thirteen years old one day he learned there was a local man whose name was only mentioned in response and ray and his friend decided to go and find out who exactly sattar of wards. of the fortune the first thing we saw was a man sitting at a table it turned out to be a policeman wearing civilian clothes. where no idea where interest her of lived and his neighbors showed us the way from the elevator. we rushed from the elevators fled there was in the right we approached the door no christabel without hesitation . i woman opened the door seconds later we learned it was you in the barn or you're

in the war she gave us a look of surprise and we all stiff and raise a horrid lived there she told us to come in and we did. while sucker of was busy in his study and re-examine the whole flats he remembers to this day the living room with the radio sets where sachar of used to listen to western broadcasts and the kitchen with a remarkable table which the academic had managed to repair without nails but what he heard from sucker of amaze the boy much more of it sir of told us that one of the basic reasons for his exile was his opposition to the war in afghanistan we knew about this war and were aware that lots of organized were being killed when we were leaving we all still for a civilian serve gave me and my friend a fail well postcard each year is not a postcard i've kept it for thirty years now they're written in briefly to andrey

from and dream it all does that k.g.b. can take it away from us because. an old two story mansion in the center of gorky was the only place where and they saw her off and yelena bonner could pay friendly calls the family of maria hein of sky elin his relatives lived in the building the high notes the family had a similar story they were also an ex article by the soviet or thora g.'s forty years before those events. since the nineteen eighties k.g.b. officers of the around the yard peering through the window to monitor several visits there were times when the academics ceased to believe it would ever be an end to his constant harassment it's not and they even found a place in gorky where they wanted to be buried there is neither of them hope to get out of this town of exile. the tension with extreme.

cheering is gorky exile sucker of went on hunger strike three times for the first joined by. local doctors received an order to hospitalized. the incident was put on record by the k.g.b. . today said ward is still a local place of interest but the doctors don't like to comment on those events. therefore speed in involved quite rough math it's as andreessen grew from a to recode they fastened his arms and legs to the bad plays the clip on his nose and poorly nutritious mixture into his mouth whenever he took a breath. in one thousand nine hundred eighty three sucker of managed to leak to the west a new work to be published there in response to soviet leadership started afresh

pounds of open persecution one of the central u.s.s.r. newspapers published an article composed by four soviet academics who choose sacral of instigating. against the soviet union mr sattar of if once you had the right to be called a comrade from the working class can no longer call you so the soviet workmen deplore your miserable attempts to tarnish the soviet reality and can damn your outspoken treachery. these abusive letters are actually very diverse but they have a similar structure. didn't paragraphs the analysis of their contents reveals that it was a staged they picked people from various ends of the soviet union and told them write some write this and don't mention this and that.

meanwhile support for the exiled academic was growing in the west a square in front of the soviet embassy in washington sourced so many demonstrations and was named sackler of plaza have encouraged washington. new york i decided before. steps of washington and there in the. street next to russian. united nations mission where mission is a very middle part of a war that was renamed sucker of warner corner. as well in communist party has chosen mikhail gorbachev as his general secretary. in nineteen eighty five gorbachev started his policy of perestroika to bring down the iron curtain soon after supper of received that famous call from gorbachev and told him his seventy exile was over. when the abnormality of

a situation became clear everyone went on to discuss it i said so let's let's face the issue. i think we should get suckered back let him come back from exile and get to work because even at that time glasnost was already underway in the country so it would be a week after gorbachev's phone call sattar of return to moscow and was met by dozens of journalists sattar of had no idea what was in store for him the abstain from giving any political statements the first place he visited was a martyr the limited physical institute he went there to attend the scientific seminar but unlike seven years before it was not detained by the k.g.b. on his way in there the growth of this was a winner with germany for the seminar as usual on tuesday it was a seminar very much like the one that is being held here right now and then there is some ona started and then can sucker of intended to enter the whole noiselessly

in order not to interrupt a seminar not to draw everyone's attention to himself something incredible happened they spotted him and burst into applause with the recorder. soon sector of was elected to the supreme council as a delegate from the academy of sciences it was in june one thousand nine hundred nine sacral found himself at the center of a scandal that flared up in the first days of the session he had condemned the situation concerning the soviet troops in afghanistan if you know that on the war in afghanistan as a crime he looked me up and the great crying in itself. you know it's not clear i should be held responsible for this great crime but the country. these statements were just offensive on the offices who are fortunate with themselves one of satirists main opponents his name just said a gay children

a peacekeeper a former paratrooper who lost both his legs in the war here given that we're very shocked and surprised look or evocative behavior of this famous son. thank you. today surrogate lives in kiev and his head of the ukrainian war veterans group he still believes that sachar of was to go above and trusting people who provided him with information including that on the situation in afghanistan. overfull wishful generally speaking apart from being a great physicist who the sucker of was a very sincere and naive person he was easily deceived and believe everything he heard he was. counting his statements in a harsh manapul i think he was simply just see for the people whose rallies are numerous and chose a political course of the young surrogates stress the populist standpoint among

soviets in relation to the conflict in afghanistan those who support it sacrosanct on t.v. were an absolute minority of the session but the debates were broadcast live across the country allowing the public to decide as a result sacrifice started to receive letters once again just like in the old days this time however the letters had a much different tone than those that previously fielding's mailbox during his gawky exile. dear dr sucker oh please accept my deepest apologies for the so-called public humiliation i can't keep silent anymore after watching the session of the congress of people's deputies on t.v. did i realize how desperately we needed. on december fourteenth one thousand nine hundred eighty nine during a session of the congress sattar of even interviewed a kazakh television the questions concerned the future of the senate test site in

kazakstan it was a place where new clear weapons had been detonated for decades sachar of demanded that the site be closed because the people who lived in this vicinity of paying too high a price for those nuclear tests. yeah right hope that mankind will terminate a critical period of history when we can peters and inventing weapons of mass destruction but it is a kind of examination and congress is here to say that the test of the ability to survive the thoughtless wish of. it was his last interview a few hours later sacral start failed his friends even told him the previous day would deeply shocked. and be no warning signs. thousands of people came to bid farewell to the academic sector of. any final

year sachar of was drafting a new constitution for the country. but died before it was finished. many of those who had read sachar early articles and his political supporters had lost their chance of meeting him in person. that while there the high standards of goods and devotion to the cause of the people in cyprus has set still needs to be fully understood. and that there were i'm sure the role is playland liberation of russia from doctrine. would be justly appreciate it was good to share with. the thinking of the.