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custody in new york of reputations of sexual assault. this is r t from moscow. dissimilar nine hundred eighty six in the u.s.s.r. was an apartment in the city of gold key the phone line is urgently installed at a set time the phone rings the voice of the other and speaks this is going to giove 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 sucker out of his life was full of paradoxes. now known as the city of nice north korea and the 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 communist party and our feeble are striving to achieve on behalf of the twenty five thousand employees of our taganrog machine factory beg you to please come to your senses otherwise you shall lose every moral rights to carry the honorable title of a soviet citizen. by larry to talents of his era time transit police officer

in the mid 1980's he's unit was ordered to tales us out of especially when he was at the station saying. his wife elaine and bonnet are off to moscow. for children group every officer had a specific task to carry out at all costs every 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 and. during some of those exile to gorky every facet of his life was closely monitored including his personal correspondence hundreds of letters of support as arrived from abroad when deceptive by the k.g.b. although dissenters will always supplied with a notification that their mail had been delivered. via dr sun it has been so long since they have had any use of full well we're very concerned about your health and

the health of wife elin a billionaire will most anxious to hear from you and would greatly appreciate a response to this letter many people here in united states and in canada support and the principles for which it stands that it was those 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 under orders of western intelligence services to collect information on the setters of the distant movement in the soviet union and the involvement of prominent public figures there were. such a rove had around the clock surveillance team assigned to him local k.g.b. staff took pictures of his daily routine. this was so they can present the west in need as proof that human rights activists sacral was alive and well. several could feel it 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 satirists every stick additional surveillance was installed in the yard nearby there was a special transmitter that new to the signals of western radio stations. most soviet citizens were initially unaware of sacro so i didn't think he was the so-called secret i can demick these are some red shots of the cycles taking a train ride to town not not on any of the world's maps a nuclear research center artisanal sixteen this is where several worked on his hydrogen bomb in the late one nine hundred forty s. . i worked very hard as i can see there's arseholes to be extreme importance to mankind. balance of nuclear owners between the two great powers

because that is exactly what guarantees that these arms will have a leader. this is the footage from the day it's a nation of the hydrogen bomb developed by under a subset of the us a song i'd managed to beat the united states in developing the terrifying weapon of mass destruction says rolf 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 a lift a strong impression inside her all despite the positive outcome of the new coin drop. by. a horrible day through a small party in the tests on a saucer of the main hero and he was allowed to open the evening he also proposed the first two shots everyone you know her she says i'd like to drink all bomb exploding into sites but never overtones in

a city so mimic when you go down you're going towards. at that time several became acquainted with the dissident historian roy it if he was the first soviet author to write a book about the true personality of joseph stalin then you will believe in for cycle of himself that he can as a discovery find out about the gulags about that system of terror that was the foundation of our further cooperation is started writing about politics and self and i brought him underground decision propagation of. intellectual freedom is essential to human society freedom to obtain and distribute information freedom for open minded and fierce 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 masked myths which in the hands of treacherous hypocrites and demagogues can be transformed into a bloody dictatorship. in

the west the essay was an instant success selling millions of copies to authorities response was swift to sattar of was banned from working and how does a man sixteen and moved to moscow they have 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. were there within just back in those years they often resorted to exhausting the dissidents abroad birdsong or of was to prominence a figure. they also knew some state secrets though for no one even considered him going abroad as an option. 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 the dissidents found ways around the static time ago it was possible to get

rid of the radio jamming with. 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 under a circle of stores his essays and his activities of the. distance used to typewrite sacro 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 a little middle of the women flyers and way post of the year it was in residential areas and back streets and courtyards our fliers he said the truth and the sack or of himself was saying and exposed the lives of the soviet pressed started to publish about him. it will provoke regret it will. gradually human rights and

purchasing became satirise 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 a satire of make elin and pointed at a dissident called trial. lawyer is an outstanding moomba strong character and she had a serious influence over andrei so her of 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 or gay boxer of volunteered to paint sacro 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 husband. as we talked the dr sokoloff i counted seven

slaps only gave him changes every time she 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 him. i showed her my sketch and she tried to rip it out of my hands and i actually had to run with it to save it from. one thought or. some sort of took to heart any attack on his wife the author of the notorious soviet 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. in the summer of says first you should apologise to my wife in public but is just refused several came up to him and slapped him in the face although not too hard the man left and officer of gleefully sent a telegram to his relief i slept him. december

one thousand nine hundred seventy nine afghanistan. after a special operation to remove the leader of the tsunami soviet troops invaded afghanistan the soviet press would like to call this the international agency several didn't hold back in publicly condemning the action calling its immigration he would not be forgiven for his remarks. were we froze up to the customs keep bridge on her way to work the traffic police cars suddenly felt sorry way. driver or just surprised to turn out and go to the police and all the attackers in the way and friends open up again to make a call and. they showed their rage id carson said that they were from a tier in a district but in fact they were from the g.b. . and the driver experience they would tend to follow the car which was also for a change

a big change for the prosecutor's office where prosecutor become close said so make it a draw into the. awards couple incompetent authorities have decided that she should be exalts to disregard. the outskirts of gorky in the newly built area should have been key here and there a some sort of and yelling and on the spend seven years of their lives together and during all that time every step was monitored by the k.g.b. how many employees were watching several how many cassettes of kin civilians were shot and what reports were made it's more still a secret to this day. i'm good well good thank you for bringing you the latest in science and technology from

around russia. we've got the future covered. mission free accreditation free transport charges free the arrangement free risk free stew types freezing and dumb old free broadcast quality video for your media projects a free media dog a hearty dot com. moscow the limited physical in-situ each of the academy of sciences the employees of the institute are the only people allowed to visit sacral in the city of gold teeth. his colleagues kept in touch with him during the whole seven year exile despite the difficulties such actions could bring them. when andre sucker of was in exile we did our best to preserve his office your rule nobody's in his place at the table

sign bearing his name was still hung on the door of the study it was attached to the inner side of the door and we separated by the wall guarded the son. 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 by case is a layering unlawfulness. meanwhile in gold key all a sucker us 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 should sacro suddenly show up and write you a state security officer approached me shoot his id card and instructed me as to how i was to serve succor of his war and if it happens to ask permission to make

a phone call i was to tell him that the residence was. in one nine hundred eighty resident and the race of was just thirteen years old one day he learned there was a local man whose name was only mentioned in whispers 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 in 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 on the right where proceed to dorner christabel without hesitation was in the door seconds later we learned it was here in the barn or in the wall or she gave us a look of surprise and we all stiff and raising her of lived there she told us to

come in and we did. it with. while sucker of was busy in his study and re-examine the whole flat he remembers to this day the living room with the radio sets where sutter of used to listen to western broadcasts and the kitchen with a remarkable table which the academic managed to repair without nails but what he heard from sucker of amaze the boy much more on the server 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 the thoughts of august were being killed when we were leaving we asked him for a civilian serve gave me and my friend a fail well postcard each. postcard i've kept it for thirty years now and they're written in briefly to andrey from and dream it all does that k.g.b. can take it away from us of. an

old two story mansion in the center of gorky was the only place where and the race of 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 or thora trees forty years before those events. since the one nine hundred eighty s. keiji the officers of 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 the oracular where they wanted to be buried there is neither of them hope to get out of this town of exile. the tension was extreme.

during his gorky exile sacro for went on hunger strike three times for the first he was joined by. local doctors received an order to hospital i said. the incident was put on record by the k.g.b. . today said ward is still a local place of interest the doctors don't want to comment on those events. the force feed in involved quite rough methods as andreessen grew from a to recode they fast and his arms and legs to the bad plays a clip on his nose and poor in your trisha's mixture into his mouth whenever he took a breath. in one thousand nine hundred eighty three sacro managed to leak to the west a new work to be published then in response to soviet leadership started afresh bounds of open persecution one of the central u.s.s.r. newspapers published an article composed by four soviet academics who choose sacro

of instigating. against the soviet union mr sattar of if once you have 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 crabtree. these abusive letters are actually very diverse but they have a similar structure those are guided into paragraphs the analysis of their contents reveals that it was all staged they picked people from various ends of the service union and told them write stuff or write this and don't mention this and that. meanwhile support for the exiled academic was growing in the west the square in front of the soviet embassy in washington source so many demonstrations it was

named secular of plaza haven't heard. from. new york or decided before all the. steps the russian and renamed part the street next to russian. united nations mission mission is and will be though part of a war that was renamed sucker of warner corner. as well in communist party has chosen mikhail gorbachev as its 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 to the stall yesterday when the abnormality of the situation became clear everyone went on to discuss it i said so let's let's face the issue. i think

we should get some back let him come back from exile and get to work because even at the time glasnost was already underway in a country where you know. 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 the abstain 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 it was not detained by the k.g.b. on his way in there was a verse of the first and when germany for the seminar as usual on tuesday it was a seminar very much like the one that is being held here right now in the seminar started and then came sucker of intended to go into the whole noiselessly in order not to interrupt the seminar not to draw everyone's attention to himself something

incredible happened i spotted him and burst into applause was the word you're. soon sector of was elected to the supreme council as a delegate from the academy of sciences was in june one thousand eight hundred nine cetera found himself at the center of a scandal that flared up in the first days of the session he had condemned the situation concerning a soviet troops in afghanistan it out on the war in afghanistan was a crawl him it took me about the great following and it's worth. it because it's not clear who should be held responsible for this great drawing country. his statements were judged offensive on the offices who had foreseen that war themselves one of the subtle rosaline opponents his name just said a gay child of an a peacekeeper a former paratrooper who lost both his legs in the war it wouldn't it will very

shocked by the provocative behavior of this famous sign. today surrogate lives in kiev and his head of the ukrainian war veterans group he still believes that sucker of was to go above and trusting people who provided him with information including that on the situation in afghanistan. over from generally speaking apart from being a great physicist group 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 manner i think he was simply just see for the people who surround is a political course with young surrogates pressed a populist standpoint among soviets in relation to the conflict in afghanistan

those who supported sacro splinter view were an absolute minority of the session but the debates were broadcast live across the country allowing the public to decide as a result sacral started to receive letters once again just like in the old days this time however alexis had a much different tone to those that previously filled his 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 need you. on december fourteenth one thousand nine hundred eighty nine during a session of the congress sacro gave an interview to catholic television the questions concerned the future of the semi pro latins 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 facility hoping to high a price for those nuclear tests. yeah right. will terminate a critical period of history when we competed and inventing weapons of mass destruction it is a kind of examination and condescend to say that a test of the ability to survive a focus will shift. it was his last interview a few hours later suckles heart failed his friends he met told him the previous day would deeply shocked. and be no one in science. thousands of people came to bid farewell to the academic sachar of. any final year sucker of was drawn to a new constitution for the country. but died before it was finished.

many of those in and read sachar olds early articles and his political supporters had lost their chance of meeting him in person. that while at 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 would i'm sure the role is played in the liberation of russia from doctrine. would be justly krishi it is with british if we did have a third of the.