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russian leader dog giving a definitive answer of his recent q. and a session with the media. this weekend russia mark ninety years since the birth of the man renowned for both inventing the first hydrogen bomb and protecting human rights in the u.s.s.r. we follow the life of soccer off next year on out. december one thousand nine hundred eighty six in the u.s.s.r. as an apartment in a city of gold keep a phone line is urgently installs 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 been 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 and his life was full of paradoxes. now known as the city of nice north good old king 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. to town and 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 elin and on and off to moscow the very cordial every officer had a specific task to carry out at all costs the overall task was to follow succor 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 correspondence hundreds of letters of support as arrived from abroad were intercepted by the

k.g.b. over the senators were always supplied with a notification and then mail had been delivered. via dr south it has been so long since they have had any use of well we're very concerned about your health and the health of life you lead a boner well most anxious to hear from you and would greatly appreciate a response to this letter many people here in the united states and in canada supports you and the principles for which you stand political sides of the k.g.b. made a list of persons to restrict sahar of from communicating accident people to the k.g.b. were sure that some of these people were acting under orders of western intelligence services to collect information on the suttas of the dissident movement in the soviet union and the involvement of prominent public figures there were. some sort of how to round the clock surveillance team assigned to him local k.g.b. staff took pictures of his daily routine. this was so they could present them to

western media as a human rights activist 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 a house across the street there was a k.g.b. department who watched that rose every step 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 sacco's identity he was the so-called secret academic these are some rain shots of the sachar also taking a train ride to the town not smarts on any of the world's maps the 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

a consultant on toss to be of extreme importance to mankind. balance of nuclear and is better in that area correct palace because that is exactly what scared sees that these arms will have an illusion. this is the footage from the detonation of the hydrogen bomb developed by under a son of the us his song had managed to beat the united states in developing the terrifying weapon of mass destruction samsonov became an epidemic in his early thirty's it's one of the contests resulted in two deaths a soldier on site and a little girl in a nearby village a lift a strong impression in soccer all despite the cost of outcome of the new jointer bomb. blast if i could also for a couple of days through a small quality in the test site to own

a summary of the main hero deal with and he was allowed to open the evenings of course he'd also propose the first toast which shocked everyone you're her she says i'd like to dream job orms exploding into science but never overtones and cities in america when you go down you've got a world it's going to. at that time several became acquainted with the dissident historian roy mediated he was the first soviet author to write a book about the true personality of joseph stalin then you will believe infrastructure of himself that it came as a discovery will find out about the gulags about that system of terror that was the foundation of our further cooperation is not in writing about politics and self and i bought him underground dissident publication of. 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 trilogy of freedom of thought is the only guarantee against people being

contaminated by mass myths which in the hands of treachery is hypocrites and demagogues can be transformed into a bloody dictatorship. in the west the essay was an instance success selling millions of copies to authorities response was swift to sattar of was banned from working in the heart of some us sixteen and moved to moscow there the academic attended underground meetings and took part in discussions on a controversial issues soon sector of came under the close eye of the k.g.b. before they were back in those years they often resorted to designing the dissidents abroad birdsong or of was too prominent a figure. they 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 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 how much of 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 during it helps us find out under a sucker of stuart's essays and isn't of it is written a huge. 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 it was the regular women fire and way posted them. in residential areas and back streets and courtyards our fires said the truth and

the british psycho of himself was saying and exposed the lives that the soviet pressed started to publish about him. it was perfectly good it will. gradually human rights and fantasy became sachar of snaking 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 met gillan opponent at a dissident court trial. lawyer is now standing room with a strong character and she had a serious influence over andrei saw 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 and gay culture of volunteered to paint sacral 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 a boner because of her great influence over her husband. doesn't he told the doctor sokoloff i counted seven slaps only gave him changes every time he didn't like. something and then i started to draw her shots are you going to draw me too and i said of course i will only draw you because you have a tremendous influence over you know if i show them a sketch and she tried to rip it out of my hands and i actually had to run with it to save it from. the more. subtle as took to heart any attack on his wife the author of the notorious soviet book cia vs u.s.s.r. who took the liberty of making an offensive reference to born a jew response from doc to sucker off and in public. but in the summer of surgical vs should apologize to my wife in public after his last three refused

summer of came up to him and slapped him in the face although not too hard for the man left the end of the summer 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 later kulis the international agency several didn't hold back in publicly condemning the action calling it an integration he would not be forgiven for his remarks. we drove up to the coastal conscript bridge on her way to where a traffic police cars suddenly got a way where driver which is surprised that the townsend walks with a policeman all over the capitol and the reaction from so parents are going to make law and. they showed a racially charged us and said that they were from the lead singer and minister in

fact it was from the judge again. and it's rider it says that there was came to follow the car also from a cage legal which came to the prosecutor's office where prosecutors become closer to making it a draw into the. lord's will the constant authorities have to sergeant it should be exhausted this is your article. of. the outskirts of gorky in the newly built area should have been lucky here andrei sakharov 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 several how many cassettes of hidden civilians were shot and what reports were made it's all still a secret to this day. repairing a broken nation. highway construction and humanitarian aid. but as

shady officials talk of the spoils of war it's the people who pay the price. profiteering here is no longer just down to drug trafficking and afghanistan and the dollars showing an all to. the ng as well as. bringing you the latest in science jim thank knowledge from around russia. we've got the future covered. moscow a limited physical institutes and the academy of sciences the employees of deans to change with the only people allowed to visit sacro in the city of gold key. 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 took his place in the table signed bearing his name was still hung on the door of the study it was attached to the in a side of the door and we separated by the guard at the sign where you stated. no official soviet establishment supposed to enforce the law has taken responsibility for the fact of my deportation it is only up to a court to establish either someone's innocence or to determine the measure of punishment and a term of imprisonment my case is the layering unlawfulness. meanwhile in gorky all the sucker oaths 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 should sacro 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 you or me i was warned that if it happens to ask for permission to make a phone call i was to tell him that the did not. 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 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 injuries or heard of lived and his neighbors showed us the way from the elevator. we rushed from the elevators there was on the right where the door across the bell without hesitation . or by woman opened the door seconds later we learned it was here in a ball and you're going the woman she gave us a look of surprise and we also different race on her of live 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 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 sachar 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 lots of organized were being killed when we were leaving we all still for a souvenir were served gave me and my friends a fair well post card each year is more postcard i've kept it for over thirty years now written in briefly to andrey tremendous alders that k.g.b. can take it away from us of. an

old two story mansion in the center of course was the only place where and they sucker of and yelena bonner could pay friendly calls the family of maria hein of skier elin his relatives lived in the building the high notes the family had a similar story they were also in exile to god he 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 is not a good 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 was extreme.

during his gorky exile sacro went on hunger strike three times the first joined by c.n.n. and on the. local doctors received an order to hospitalize. the incident was caught 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 andries are if later recalled they fast in 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 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. one of the central u.s.s.r.

newspapers published an article composed by four soviet academics who choose sachar off of instigating. against the soviet union mr sattar of if once you have the right to be called a comment when the working class can no longer call you so the soviet workmen deplore your miserable attempts to tarnish the soviet reality and damn your outspoken treachery. these abusive letters are actually very diverse but they have a similar structure divided into paragraphs their nonsense and their content reveals that it was all staged they picked people from various ends of the soviet union and told them write sacrifice and 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 sattler of plaza have encouraged read washington. new york and decided before the. court steps the russian and renamed the street next to russian. united nations mission where mission is and what middle part of war was renamed sucker of warner corner. as well it 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 received that famous call from gorbachev he told him a seven year exile was over. when the 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 the country. a week off the gorbachev 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 steyn from giving any political statements the first place he visited was a martyr a limited 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 lead the birth of the threesome and we cover the seminal as usual on tuesday it was a seminar very much like the one that is being held here right now so no the seminar started and then came supper of intended to injure 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 was the level of your. soon the center of was elected to the supreme council as a delegate from the academy of sciences was in june one thousand nine hundred eighty nine sacrificed 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 each other on the war in afghanistan as a crawling openly about the great drawing in itself. yet 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 won a satirist main opponent his name just surrogate children a peacekeeper a former paratrooper who lost both his legs in

a war here that we're going to we're very shocked by the provocative behavior of this famous scientist. today surrogate lives in kiev and his head of the ukrainian war veterans group he still believes that secor of was to go of all interesting people who provided him with information including that on the situation in afghanistan. over foolish will generally speaking apart from being a great physicist who will suffer of was a very sincere and naive person he was easily deceived and believed everything he heard was. counting statements in a harsh manner i think he was simply just see for the people who surrounded in those as a political course of the young silly gay expressed a populist standpoint i'm on soviets in relation to the conflict in afghanistan

those who supported secrest point of view were an absolute minority at the session but the debate so 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 i listened and 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 emily issue 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 the symbol fourteenth one thousand nine hundred eighty nine during a session of the congress center of gave an interview to catholic television the questions concerning the future of the senate a lot since test sites and kazakstan it was

a place when you clear weapons had been designated 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. yeah right that mankind will terminate the particle period of history when we competed and invent same weapons of mass destruction it is a kind of examination mankind assessors to say yes it is a test of the ability to survive a thoughtless wish. it was his last interview a few hours later sacral start failed his friends he met twenty in the previous day with deeply shocked. there'd be no warning signs. thousands of people came to bid farewell to the academic satire of. east finally a sucker of was drawn to

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

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