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website with twenty four seventh's live streaming news tell us what to do about the ongoing financial hurricane unlimited free high quality videos for down. in stories you never find on mainstream news. this. week the political. posturing on our teams are. dissimilar nineteen eighty six the u.s. is socked in apartments in the city of gorky a phone line is urgently installed at a set time to so dreams the voice of the other end speaks. this is gold which of
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please return and continue your patriotic activity. the person these words were dressed to has spent nearly the past seven years in political exile. he 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 under a satire of his life was full of courage oaks is. now known as the city of nice north towards key 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
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communist party and our people are striving to achieve on behalf of the twenty five thousand employees of our taganrog machine factory we beg 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 tail sucked out of especially when he was at the station seeing his wife elin and on and 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 written. during some sort of exile to go to every facet of his life was closely monitored. including his personal
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correspondence hundreds of letters of support has arrived from abroad waiting to sit sit by the k.g.b. although the senators 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 use of the well that we're very concerned about your health and the half of your wife illana owner will most anxious to hear from you and would greatly appreciate the response to this letter many people here in the united states and in canada support and the principles for which you stand then to the cause of the occasion the major list of persons to restrict so horror of from communicating with certain people the k.g.b. were sure that some of these people were acting under orders of western intelligence services to collect information on the settlers of the distant movement in the soviet union and the involvement of prominent public figures they were with. some sort of how to round the clock surveillance team assigned to
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him local k.g.b. staff to pictures of his daily routine. this was so they could present him to western media as a human rights activist sacral was alive and well. could feel he was being closely monitored and he understood that he would have to live with it for many years. in the house across the street there was a k.g.b. department who watched that rolls every stick additional surveillance was installed in the yard nearby there was a special transmitter the new to the signals of western radio stations. most soviet citizens were initially unaware of suckers identity he was the so-called secret academic these are some ranch shorts of the cycles taking a train ride to the town not marked on any of the world's maps a nuclear research center out is
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a must sixty this is where several of worked on his hydrogen bomb in the late one nine hundred forty s. . oh it's very hard as are considered to be a fixed remote fortunes to mankind. there is a balance of nuclear on a spectrum that seemed correct palace because that is exactly what scared cease that these arms will ever believed. this is the footage from the detonation of the hydrogen bomb developed by under a subset of the us assad had managed to beat the united states in developing the terrifying weapon of mass destruction samsonov became an epidemic 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 iliffe the strong impression inside her oath despite the cost of outcome of the new high drama. class if i would
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also heard of comparable they threw a small party in the test side to own a saucer of the main hero and he was allowed to open the evening of course he also propose the first toast which shocks everyone you're her she says i'd like to drink all bombs exploding on test sites but never overtones in cities when you go down you've got a war that's going to. at that time some sort of became acquainted with it this isn't historian. he was the first soviet author to write a book about the true personality of joseph stalin and then you will believe in for a second of himself he came as a discovery will find out about the gulags about that system of terror that was the foundation of our further cooperation he started writing about politics and self and i brought him underground dissident publication of some of the. 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
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and prejudices such a trilogy 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 a bloody dictatorship. in the west the essay was an instance excess selling millions of copies to authorities response was swift to sattar of was banned from working in how does a man sixteen and moved to moscow there the academic in the underground meetings and took part in discussions on controversial issues soon sacro came under the close eye of the k.g.b. before they were killed back in those years they often results are to exhausting the dissidents abroad birdsong or of was too prominent a figure. also knew some state secrets and those forces no one even considered him
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going abroad as an option. you recall with a well known soviet dissident he first heard circles name in the one nine hundred seventy s. while listening to radio broadcasts western radio signals were jammed by the soviet union the dissidents found ways around the static. it was possible to get rid of the radio jamming with. this navy receiver it was everywhere in the soviet union and with his help could learn the truth of what was going on in our country and help us find out under a sucker of stuart's essays and his activities which the. soviet dissidents seized to typewrite suckers essays they covertly posted them on the streets k.g.b. agents were in a permanent lookout for them this battle against the grassroots movement raged for many years we thought at the time we go and we made flyers and way posted them here
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it was good in residential areas and back streets and courtyards our fires he said the truth and sacrifice himself was saying and exposed the lives of the soviet pressed started to publish about him. if the public are good it will . gradually human rights advocacy became satirist main occupation to a large extent this helped him overcome the grief caused by the death of his first wife and succumbed to cancer. a few years later sucker of met gillan and pointed at a dissident called trial. lawyer is an outstanding woman with 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 nineteen eighties prominent soviet artists said gay baucher of volunteered to paint sacral
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support trait however the work remained unfinished he found the relationship in the center of family so intriguing that he wanted to include you in opponent because of her great influence over her husband. but as we told the dr sackcloth i counted seven slaps on a gave him changes every time she didn't like. and then i started to draw her she was shocked even to draw me to and i said of course i am i will only draw you because you have a tremendous influence over. 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. one thought or. took the hearts of any attack on his wife the author of the net tori's soviet book cia versus u.s.s.r. who took the liberty of making an offensive reference to born a jew response from dr sutter of and in public. school summer of
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said first you should apologise to my wife in public others less refused summer of came up to him and slapped him in the face although not too hard the man left the end of the summer of gleefully such a telegram to his relief ice let him. december nineteen seventy nine afghanistan. after a special operation to remove the leader of his long arm soviet troops invaded afghanistan the soviet press would later called this the international security center of didn't hold back in publicly condemning the action calling its integration he would not be forgiven for his remarks. we drove up to the coastal can skip reach one hundred ways to work the traffic police cars suddenly got a way well driver which surprised it sounds and walked to the police not at all the
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data closer to the re and from so canals and into medline and. they showed a razor edge and a compass and said that they were from a seal in a district but in fact they were from the k.g.b. . and the driver training that they would tend to follow the car which is also from a k.g.b. came to the prosecutor's office where the prosecutor become closer to making it a project. towards opal the constant authorities have to saunter at you should be exhausted this is your part of. the outskirts of goalkeeper in the newly built area should have been key here under a south of and yelling and on the spend seven years of their lives together and during all that time everything was monitored by the k.g.b. how many employees were watching some how many cassettes of killing civilians was shot and what reports were made it's all still
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am. thank you. moscow the limited physical institute and the academy of sciences the employees of the institute were the only people allowed to visit sacral in the 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 again when andre sucker of
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was in exile we did our best to preserve his office your rule nobody's of his place at the tables if you sign bearing his name was still hung on the door of the study that was attached to the in a side of the door and we separated by the wall god at the side where you sit here . no official soviet establishment supposed to enforce the law has taken responsibility for the fact of my deportation it is only up to a course to establish either someone's innocence or to determine the measure of punishment and a term of imprisonment by case is hilarion unlawfulness. meanwhile in gorky all is suckles and bonus potential contacts were under a 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 should sacral suddenly show up and write you
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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 he happens to ask for permission to make a phone call i was to tell him that the did not work. in one nine hundred eighty resident andré smear and of was just thirteen years old one day he learned there was a local man whose name was only mentioned in response andrei and his friend decided to go and find out who exactly center 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 injuries to her have lived and his neighbors showed us the way from the elevator. we rushed from the elevators fled there was in the right where approached the door they pressed the bell without hesitation. i want an open the door seconds later we learned it was
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here in the ball and you're in the water she gave us a look of surprise and we all stiff and raise our of live there she told us to come in and we did. it was asleep but. 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 sucker 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 sacral amazed the boy much more. got zero 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 so when we were leaving we all still for a souvenir serve gave me and my friend a fail well postcard each. postcard i've kept it for thirty years now and they really briefly to andrey from and dream it all does that k.g.b.
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can take it away from us as. 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 in exile to go to keep by the soviet authorities forty years before those events. since the one nine hundred eighty s. k.g.b. officers over the around the yard peering through the window to monitor several visits there were times when the academics ceased to believe there would ever be an end to his constant harassment it's not that 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 six treating.
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your ring is gorky exile sacro for went on hunger strike three times for the first joint. local doctors received an order to hospitalize sucker of. the incident was put on record by the k.g.b. . today said it is still a local place of interest but the doctors don't like to comment on those events. therefore speed in involved quite rough methods as andreessen later recalled they fastened his arms and legs to the bad place to sleep on his nose and poorly nutritious mixture into his mouth whenever he took a breath. in nineteen eighty three sacro managed to leak to the west a new work to be published then in response to soviet leadership started afresh
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bounds of open persecution one of the central u.s.s.r. newspapers published an article composed by four soviet academics who choose to sack of of instigating. against the soviet union mr sattar of if once you have the right to be called a comrade when 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 the contents of that it was all staged they picked people from various ends of the soviet union and told them write some prefer to write this and don't mention that.
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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 secular of plaza they were encouraged were russian from. new york and he said it before in the footsteps of a russian and renamed the street next russian. united nations mission very mission isn't for me though part of a war it 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 he told him his seven year exile was over the still yes when he abnormality of the situation became clear
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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 the time glasnost was already underway in the country so it would be. a week after gorbachev's phone calls sattar of return to moscow and was met by dozens of journalists sattar of had no idea what was in store for him he abstained from giving any political statements the first place he visited was in. the limited physical institute he went then to attend the scientific seminar but unlike seven years before he was not detained by the k.g.b. on his way lead a verse of the first in the we cover the seminal as usual review on tuesday it was a seminar very much like the one that is being held here right now in the seminar
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started and then came south of intended to into the whole noiselessly in order not to interrupt the seminal to draw everyone's attention to himself something incredible happened i spotted him and burst into applause with a word you're. soon sucker of was elected to the supreme council as a delegate from the academy of sciences was in june one thousand nine hundred nine sacro 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 not at all certain of by the war in afghanistan as a crime to prevent the great drawing in itself. it's not clear he should be held responsible for this great drawing country. his statements were judged offensive on the offices who had foreseen that war themselves one sucker of slain opponents his name just said a gay children
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a peacekeeper a former paratrooper who lost both his legs in the war here don't look at it we're very shocked by the provocative behavior of his famous son to. thank. today surrogate lives in kiev and his head of the ukrainian war veterans group he still believes that secor of was to go above and trusting people who provided him with information including that on the situation in afghanistan. overfull was sure 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. countering his statements in a harsh manapul i think he was simply just see for the people who surrounded chose a political course with your own surrogates pressed
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a populist standpoint among soviets in relation to the conflict in afghanistan those who supported sacral school intervened were an absolute minority of the session but the debates are 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 a less is held in much different tone to those that previously filled his mailbox during his gawky exile. dear dr suffer 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 need you. on december fourteenth one thousand nine hundred eighty nine during a session of the congress sachar of even interviews you can like television the questions concern the future of the senate since guest sides in kazakstan it was
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a place where nuclear weapons had been detonated for decades sachar of demanded that the site be closed because the people who lived in this facility were paying too high a price for those nuclear tests. that mankind will terminate at the critical period of history has when we competed in inventing weapons of mass destruction that it is a kind of examination and conscious decision to say that a test of the ability to survive a focus wishes. it was his last interview a few hours later satirise heart failed his friends he met told him the previous day would deeply shocked. there'd be no warning signs. thousands of people came to bid farewell to the academic sachar of. any final
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year sachar of was drawn to a new constitution for the country. but died before it was finished. many of those him and read sachar of early articles and his political supporters had lost their chance of meeting him in person. that riled up with the high standards of goods and devotion to the cause of the people in cyprus has said still needs to be fully understood. and that there were i'm sure the role is played in the liberation of russia from doctrines or would be justly appreciative of it to share with the third of the.
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