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welcome back they had lots of. greece's parliaments passes a vote on how to implement hostile stares the measures of the government is ready to sell some greek assets the event is to stay afloat and many say it's a sell out. of the. three men are each sentence to twenty five years in court an f.b.i. state make plot to blow up synagogues in new york the questions are raised about u.s. tactics of fighting homegrown terror. russia questions france's admission that it
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supplied weapons to libyan rebels on the country someone claimed they turned their strikes the point of all analysts that's an exclusive interview with our team. next we explore the life of a soviet scientists under a sucker off one who invented the hydrogen bomb and was at the same time the super unions most famous dissidents. 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 gold which of please return and continue your patriotic activity. the person these words were
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addressed to the 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 sucked out of and his life was full of paradoxes. now known as the city of nice north good old old 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 people are striving to achieve on behalf of the twenty five
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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 cattle of a soviet citizen. to lead the talents of his 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 a bomb went off to moscow. every officer had a specific task to korea knows at all costs the overall task was to follow circle of and to ensure that no documents or anything else gets passed on to him especially at the railway station and we want to ensure that he doesn't get to speak with any strangers written in. 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 were
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intercepted by the k.g.b. although the settlers were always supplied with a notification that their mail had been delivered. via dr satcher and it has been so long since they have had any use of 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 a response to this letter many people here in united states and in canada support 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 changing me were sure that some of these people were acting under orders of western intelligence services to collect information on the surface of the distant movement in the soviet union and the involvement of prominent public figures who were with. such a role for 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
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western media as for the human rights activists sacral was alive and well. several can 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 want settles 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 circles identity he was the so-called secret academic these are some rain shots of the psychos taking a train ride to the town not smarts 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.
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. i was very cold as a concert his own songs to be of extreme importance to mankind that there is a balance of media owners between the two great powers because that is exactly what scared cease at these arms in of a belief system. 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've 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 left a strong impression sucker of despite the positive outcome of the new coin drop. back if i've also heard of comparable things through
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a small quality in the test side to on a summer of the main hero here with he was allowed to open the evening or so he also proposed the first two shots everyone says i'd like to drink channel bombs exploding into sights but never overtones and cities when you go down you've got a world it's not going to. at that time several became acquainted with a dissident historian good if he was the first soviet author to write a book about the true personality of joseph stalin and then you will be given for succor of himself that he came as a discovery find out about the gulags about the system of terror that was the foundation of our further cooperation based on his writing about politics and self and i brought him underground dissident publications some. 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
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contaminated by masked myths which in the hands of treacherous hypocrites and demagogues can be transformed into bloody dictatorship. in the west the usa was an instant success selling millions of copies to authorities response was sweet to her of was banned from working in a palace among 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. well there were just taking those years they often resorted to designing the dissidents abroad byrdsong or of was too prominent a figure. also knew some state secrets though for no one even considered him going abroad as an option. for. you was
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a well known soviet dissident he first heard sacrilege 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. 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 under a stack of stores essays and his activities of the. distance used to typewrite sacral 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 before it went to middle of the women fire and wade posted them. in residential areas and back streets of in courtyards hour for as he said the
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truth and the british soccer of himself was saying and exposed the lives we get the soviet press started to publish about. it without a clue what it all. gradually human rights and privacy became satirise main occupation to a large extent this helped him overcome the grief caused by the death of his first wife and that succumbed to cancer. a few years later satire of metal in a bonnet at a distant call 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 there is wife's actions did influence his behavior. in the one nine hundred eighty s. prominent soviet artists are gay baucher of volunteered to paint sacro sport trade however the work remained unfinished he found the relationship in the center of
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family so intriguing that he wanted to include you in a boner because of her great influence over husbands. as we told the dr sackcloth i counted seven slaps on occasion she did every time she didn't light. something and then i started to draw that she was shocked even to draw me to nurse it of course i will only draw you because you have a tremendous influence over you know 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 a. bottle. took to heart any attack on his wife the author of the next tori's 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. or of says first you should apologise to my wife in public and is just refused summer of
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came up to him and slapped him in the face although not too hard for the man left and the desire of gleefully sent a telegram to his relief i slept in. december nineteenth seventy nine afghanistan. after a special operation to remove the leader of his alarm soviet troops invaded afghanistan the soviet press would later kulis fulfill international duty several didn't hold back in publicly condemning the action calling it immigration he would not be forgiven for his remarks. the phrase up to the customer comes to breach on her way to work the traffic police cars suddenly docks a way. driver which is surprised that we get out and walk to the police and all the accolades and the reaction from so concerned and the men climbed. they showed
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a virgin carson said that they were from eighty or in a district but in fact they were from the tragedy. and the driver experienced they were came to follow the car which is also from a cage a big chunk of the prosecutor's office where prosecutors become color sets and make it a project. a lot of the content authorities have decided that you should be exhausted this is your darkest before. the outskirts of gold keep in the newly built area should have been. 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 killing civilians were shot and what report so amazing it's all still a secret to this day. plan.
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looks into the phone ringing you the latest in science and technology from around russia. we've got the future covered. plenty of. places glenn. moscow the limited physical institute and the academy of sciences the employees of the institute were the only people allowed to visit sacro and the city of gold. his colleagues kept in touch with him during the whole seven year exile despite the difficulties such actions could bring them but when andre sucker of was in exile we did our best to preserve his office your rule nobody took his place at the table
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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 guarded the sign where you. know 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 delay or in an office. meanwhile in gold key all the sac arose 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 just sacral 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 sucker of i was warned that if he happens to ask for permission
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to make a phone call i was to tell him that the did not. in one thousand nine hundred eighty resident 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 response and ray and his friend decided to go and find out who exactly sattar of wards were to go into 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 on the right where approached the door they pressed the bell with no hesitation. but i wouldn't open the door seconds later we learned it was you in the ball and you're in the water 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. it with.
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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 where second 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 sack of amaze the boy much more. well 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 civilian serve gave me and my friend a fail well postcard each. post card i've kept it for thirty years now and originally briefly to andrey from and ring it all does that k.g.b. can take it away from us because that where. an
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old two story mansion in the center of gorky was the only place where and they sucker 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. 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 there would ever be an end to his constant harassment is not a good 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 sex training.
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during his gorky exile sacro for went on hunger strike three times for the first joint on the. local doctors received an order to hospitalize south of. 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 methods as andreessen grif 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 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.
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newspapers published an article composed by four soviet academics. sachar off 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 will divide it into 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 right sucker of right this is nuts. meanwhile support for the exiled academic was growing in the west a square in front of the soviet embassy in washington sourced so many
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demonstrations it was named satire of plaza have incurred were russian from. new york and decided to follow in the footsteps of a russian and remained part of history next to russian. united nations mission where mission is and middle part of a war that was renamed sucker of warner corner. is world communist party has chosen nico 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 at a still yes when the abnormality of the situation became clear everyone went on to
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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 the time glasnost was already underway in the country so it would go. a week after gorbachev 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 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 there the birth of the first in the we covered the seminal as usual or 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 enter the whole noiselessly in order not to interrupt the seminal not to draw everyone's attention to himself something
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incredible happened i spotted him and burst into applause stood up with your. soon set or of was elected to the supreme council as a delegate from the academy of sciences 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 a soviet troops in afghanistan it is not at all by the war in afghanistan as a crime if you look there but the great drawing in itself. it's not clear who should be held responsible for this great troy the country. his statements were judged offensive by the offices who had foreseen that war themselves one sucker of slain opponents has made just said a gay child of an a peacekeeper a former paratrooper who lost both his legs in the war. we're very shocked by the
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provocative behavior of his famous son to. thank. today sergey lives in kiev and is head of the ukrainian war veterans group he still believes that sachar of was to go of all and trusting people who provided him with information including that on the situation in afghanistan. overfull 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 in those which was a political course of your own surrogates pressed a populist standpoint among soviets in relation to the conflict in afghanistan
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those who supported secrest point of view 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 alexis had a much different tone to those that previously filled his mailbox during his gawky exile. dear dr satcher 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 interview to kazakhs television the questions concerned the future of the semi-colon since guest sides in kazakstan it was a place where nuclear weapons had been detonated for decades sachar of demanded that
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the site be closed because the people who lived in this facility were paying too high a price for those nuclear tests. yeah right hope that mankind will terminate the critical period of history when we computers 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 shock wishlist. it was his last interview a few hours later sacral spot failed his friends the midterm team the previous day with deeply shocked. there'd be no warning signs. thousands of people came to bid farewell to the academic sector of. any final year sachar of was drafting
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a new constitution for the country. but died before it was finished. and many of those in and read sachar of early articles and his political supporters had lost their chance of meeting him in person. that with the high standards of goods and devotion to the cause of the people inside her office 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 i would be justly appreciative of british if we did that a thing of the.
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