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international monetary fund puts even more stress on the rest of us don't think strauss kahn the school's talks only further than doubts. the russian president for years away from confirming a reelection bid in france and twelve tonight on president q. and a section of hundreds of journalists that it serves moscow well supported it was a syria after seeing maybe a mandate misused. well this weekend russia marked ninety years since the men were downed for both inventing the first. and protecting human rights in the u.s.s.r. and for the life of for a sucker of externality. december

one thousand nine hundred eighty six in the u.s.s.r. as an apartment in the city of gorky a phone line is urgently installed at a set time the phone rings the voice of the other and speaks this is gorbachev please return and continue your patriotic activity. the person these words were dressed 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 under a sucker of and his life was full of courage oaks is. now known as the city of nice not going to go to 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 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. alleged to tallinn serve as a retired transit police officer in the mid 1980's easy meat was ordered to tales us out of especially when he was at the station saying. his wife elaine 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 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 sit by the k.g.b. although the settlers were always supplied with a notification that their mail had been delivered. via dr scott it has been so long since they have had any use of the well we're very concerned about your health and the health of your wife illana 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 supports you and the principles for which you stand there because 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 settlers of the distant movement in the soviet union and the involvement of prominent public figures we were with. satire 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 could present to western media as proof that human rights activists sacral was alive in the well. suffer 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 satirist 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 sack of those identity he was the so-called secret i can demick these are some rational thoughts of the cycles taking a train ride to the town not smarts on any of the world's maps a nuclear research center out as a must sixty this is where sector of worked on his hydrogen bomb in the late one nine hundred forty s. . i worked very hard as a consultant ourselves to be that stream importance to mankind. balance of media owners between the two great powers because that is exactly what scared sees that these arms will have a belief system. this is the through teach from the detonation of the hydrogen bomb developed by under a subset of the us assad managed to beat the united states in developing the terrifying weapon of mass destruction samsonov became an academic early thirty's

it's one of the bomb tests resulted in today's soldier onsite and a little girl in a nearby village a left a strong impression sucker growth despite the positive outcome of the new coin drop . by if i will sell for a couple of days through 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 proposed the first toast which shocks everyone you're her she says i'd like to drink all bombs exploding into sites but never overtones and cities when you go down you've got a war that's going to. at that time several became acquainted with 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 be given for cycle of himself again as a discovery will find out about the gulags about that system of terror now is the foundation of our further cooperation is started writing about politics and self

and i've gotten underground dissident publications in 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 and prejudices such infinity 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 satire of was banned from working in how does a man 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.

before they were killed back in those years they often resulted to designing the dissidents abroad birdsong or of was too prominent a figure. also knew some state secrets and those for no one even considered him going abroad as an option. you river called was a well known soviet dissident and 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 with the learn the truth of what was going on in our country and helped us find out under a sucker of stuart's essays and his activities regarding the. distances to typewrite suckers essays they covertly posted them on the streets

k.g.b. agents sworn opponent look out for them this battle against the grassroots movement raged for many years and if look at google of women flyers and way posted them here it was in residential areas and back streets and courtyards are fine as is that the truth and the cycle of himself was saying and exposed the lives of the soviet press doctor to publish about him. if the public record it or. gradually human rights and privacy became sacrificed 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 sachar of mickey lynn and pointed at a distant court trial. lawyer is an outstanding woman with a 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 1980's prominent soviet artist sergei boucher of volunteered to paint sack arose 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 her husband. as we talked of to sucker 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 nurse it of course i will only draw you because you have a tremendous influence over. the 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.

took to heart any attack on his wife the author of the natori soviet book 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. or of surgical versa should apologise to my wife in public or to his lawyers refused 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 one thousand nine hundred seventy nine afghanistan. after special operations or move the leader is a long arm soviet troops invaded afghanistan the soviet press would later kulis fifteen international agencies several didn't hold back in publicly condemning the action calling it an aggression he would not be forgiven for his remarks.

what are your friends up to the course and can skip reach one hundred ways to work traffic police cars suddenly got sorry a way well driver which surprised get out and walk to the police not at all the data closer to the real answers openness and to medical and. they showed a razor edge into us and said that they will from the lead singer in a district and fight a war from the g.b. . are going to drive return to it they would tend to follow the car which is also from a cage or they look into the prosecutor's office where prosecutor become power sets and make it a draw into the overlords of the constant authorities have decided that you should be exhausted this is your. the outskirts of gold key in a newly built area should have been a key here and there a some sort of and yelena bonner spends seven years of their lives together and

during all that time there everything was monitored by the k.g.b. how many employees were watching some how many kids six of hidden surveillance was shot and what reports were made it's all still a secret to this day. hungry for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on r t. twenty years ago the largest country in the world disintegrated. what had been a tremendous each began a journey. where did it take. moscow to live in their physical institute and the academy of sciences the employees of the institute with the only people allowed to visit sacro in a city of gold keep his colleagues kept in touch with him during the whole seven

year exile despite the difficulties such actions could bring them. when andre sutter of was in exile we did our best to preserve his office your rule nobody took his place at table 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 got at the song where you stated. no official soviet establishment supposed to enforce the law has taken responsibility for the fact of the ports haitian it is only up to the courts to establish if someone's innocence or to determine the measure of punishment and a trend of imprisonment my case is glaring unlawfulness. meanwhile in gold key all a sucker rolls and bonus 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 sack of suddenly show up a state security officer approached me show his id card and instructed me as to how i was to serve sucker of i was warned if he happens to ask for permission to make a phone call i was to tell him that. in one thousand nine hundred eighty resilient and or a smidgen 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 friends decided to go and find out who exactly center of wards. went to 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 there was on the right where the door no press the bell without

hesitation was a woman opened the door seconds later we learned it was here in a ball and you're going the woman 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. it with us we. well 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 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. serious 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 thoughts of august were being killed when we were leaving we all still for a souvenir were served gave me and my friends

a farewell postcard each year is my postcard i've kept it for thirty years now really briefly to andrey from and ring it all does that k.g.b. can take it away from us with. an old two story mansion in the center of corky was the only place where andrei sakharov and yelena bonner could play 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 forty's forty years before those events. since the one nine hundred eighty s. k.g.b. officers of the around the yard peering through the window to monitor center of visits there were times when the academics ceased to believe there would ever be an end to his constant harassment. and 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 sucker of went on hunger strike three times for the first joined by c.n.n. and on the. local doctors received an order it's a hospital i said. the incident was put on record by the k.g.b. . today south rose 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 methods as andreessen proof later recalled they fastened his arms and legs to the bad place to sleep on his nose and already knew 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 the soviet leadership started afresh bound to vote on 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 then your outspoken treachery. these abusive letters are actually very diverse but they have a similar structure divided into paragraphs denounces of their contents reveals that it was all staged they picked people from various ends of the soviet union and told them right sacrifice 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 saw so many demonstrations and was named sachar of plaza haven't heard. from her. sucker a. new yorker decided to follow. steps a russian and renamed the street next to russian. united nations mission missionaries and middle part of a blog that was renamed soccer of warner corner. as well it's communist party has chosen mikhail gorbachev as his general secretary. in nineteen ninety five gorbachev started his policy of perestroika to bring down the iron curtain soon

after supper of receive that famous call from gorbachev he told his seventy exile was over. when he abnormality of the situation became clear everyone went on to discuss it i said so what 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 under way in a country where the only than a week off the gorbachev phone calls etc 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 a martyr the level of physical institute he went there to attend the scientific seminar but unlike seven years before he was not detained by the k.g.b. on his way led the growth of the three seven with germany to the seminar as usual

on tuesday it was a seminar very much like the one that is being held here right now so now the seminar started and then came supper of intended to enter the whole noiselessly in order not to interrupt the seminar not to draw everyone's attention to himself something incredible happens they spotted him and burst into applause or said a word you're. soon center of was elected to the supreme council as a delegate from the academy of sciences was in june one thousand nine hundred nine sacra found himself at the center of a scandal that flared up in the first days of a session he had condemned the situation concerning a soviet troops in afghanistan you know that on a map by the war in afghanistan was a crime to clear but a great drawing in itself. if you have to stop clear they should be held responsible for this great crime country

. these statements were judged offensive by the offices who were fortunate were themselves one of satirist main opponents is may just surrogate child of an a peacekeeper a former paratrooper who lost both his legs in the war. we're very shocked by the provocative behavior of the strain assigned to him. thanks. today surrogate lives in kiev and his head of the ukrainian war veterans group he still believes that secular of was to go of all interesting people who provided him with information including that on the situation in afghanistan. 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 manner i think he was simply to see for the people who surrounded serve in the us which was a political course of your own silly gay expressed a populist standpoint two months soviets in relation to the conflict in afghanistan those who supported secrest point of view were an absolute minority of the session but the debate so 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 the listeners had a much different tone to those that previously filled his mailbox during his gawky exile. dear dr sorrow please accept my deepest apologies for the so called publish millions 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 center of gave an interview to kazakhs television the questions concerned the future of the cynical lass instead sides in kazakstan it was a place when you clear weapons had been detonated for decades sachar of demanded that the site be closed because the people who lived in this vicinity were paying too high a price for those nuclear tests. yeah i hope that mankind's will terminate a critical period of history when we competed in inventing weapons of mass destruction look at it as a kind of examination and condescend to say that a test of the ability to survive a thoughtless wishlist. 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 silence.

thousands of people came to bid farewell to the academic sachar 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 also 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 such as sex still needs to be fully understood. and that there were i'm sure the role is trailing the liberation of russia all from doctrines or would be just three pre-shared of british or british or the third of the.