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three. three. three. two three. mediocre four year media drug free media guns r t. it's. this is all seen the humanitarian fits in to to repeat that circumstance of his mission to meet may have been banned from leaving greek ports. germany is accused of double standards over nazi war crimes the country continues to shield you convicted world war two criminal who escaped from a life sentence to another that is for murdering dozens of people. and
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run russia's maria sharapova is fighting for her second wimbledon title grunted out all the grass with the czech republic step it up. next our special report on soviet scientists on the day itself he created the soviet union's h. bomb making the country's most noted dissident. december one thousand nine hundred eighty six in the u.s.s.r. was an apartment in the city of gorky the phone line is urgently installs at a set time a solar rings the voice of the other end speaks this is gold which of please return and continue your patriotic activity. the person these words were dressed to has
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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 handed by the k.g.b. and oppressed by the party's leadership the man who drew so much attention was andres sutter of and his life was full of paradoxes. now known as the city of nizhny novgorod colicky 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 we beg you to please come to
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your senses otherwise you shall lose every moral rights to carry the honorable title of a soviet citizen. alleged 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 elaine a former off to moscow the very poor children group every officer had a specific task to carry out at all costs ever all 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 where we were to ensure that he doesn't get to speak with any strangers written. during summer as exile to go to keep 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
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k.g.b. although the senators were always supplied with a notification that their mail had been delivered. via dr south it has been so long since they have had any use of a well we're very concerned about your health and the health of life you lead a billionaire well most anxious to hear you preview and would greatly appreciate a response to this letter many people here in united states and in canada supports you and the principles for which is stand good examples of the k.g.b. made a list of persons to restrict so her of from communicating with certain people changed me 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 rewarded with a. satire 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
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western media as proof the human rights activists sacral was alive in the well. sahar 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 watched settles 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 i can demick these are some rationals of the cycles taking a train ride to town not smarts on any of the world's maps the nuclear research center artisanal sixteen this is where sector of worked on his hydrogen bomb in the late nineteenth forties. i worked very hard as
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a consulted on toss to david stream importance to mankind. as their balance of nuclear owners between the two great palace because that is exactly what guarantees that these arms will never believe it. this is the footage from the detonation of the hydrogen bomb developed right under a subset of the us a song had managed to beat the united states in developing the terrifying weapon of mass destruction samsonov 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 ill if the strong impression sucker rolls despite the cost of outcome of the new jointer bomb. blast if i will sell for a couple of well they threw a small party in the tests to own
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a saucer of the main hero here with and he was allowed to open the evening post reporter so he also propose the first toast which everyone you're her she says i'd like to dream tall baum's exploding into science but never overtones a city is only when you go down you've got a world it's not going to. at that time some sort of became acquainted with a dissident historian roitman it if he was the first soviet author to write a book about the true personality of joseph stalin then you will even for succor 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 is started writing about politics and self and i brought him underground dissident publications and 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 a trinity of freedom of thought is the only guarantee against people being
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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 instant success selling millions of copies to authorities response was swift zakharova was banned from working in harvest 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. were there with n.g.o.s back in those years they often resorted to exile ing the dissidents abroad birdsong or of was to prominence or figure. they also knew some state secrets though for no one even considered him going abroad as an option. you knew rebbe called was
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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. it was possible to get rid of the radiation i mean 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 undressed sucker of stuart's essays and his activities with a great age the. distance used to typewrite sacro they covertly posted them on the streets k.g.b. agents were in a permanent lookout for the base battle against the grassroots movement raged for many as we thought it was a middle of the women fire and way posted them. in residential areas and back streets and courtyards our fires he said the truth and the british soccer of
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himself was saying and exposed the lives of the soviet press data to publish about him. it was perfectly good it all. gradually human rights and fantasy became satirise main occupation to a large extent this helped him overcome the grief caused by the death of his first wife that succumbed to cancer. a few years later set of made kill in a bomb or at a dissident called trial. lawyer is an outstanding woman 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 daughter of volunteered to paint sacral sport trait however the work remained unfinished he found the relationship in the
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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 dr sack off i counted seven slaps only gave him changes every time she didn't light. and then i started to draw her she was shocked even to draw me to myself of course i will only draw you because you have a tremendous influence over him. if 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. some sort of took to heart any attack on his wife the author of the net tories 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. school summer of said first you should apologise to my wife in public after his lawyers refused
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serve came out to him and slapped 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 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 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. earlier drove up to the cousin comes to preach on how the way to work a traffic police car suddenly got a way well driver i just promised the towns and walked to the police not all the governors of the retentions opens up and to make one day earlier they showed
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a razor to the truss and said that they were from a syrian ministry and in fact i could hear from the judge again. and the driver it said they wished him to follow the car but there was also from a cage a big change for the prosecutor's office where prosecutor becoming the boss said to make it a project. awards the constant authorities have decided that you should hate saw extra this is or. else skills of gorky in the newly built area should have been key here andrei sakharov and yelena bona 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 kin surveillance was shot and what reports were made it's all still a secret to this day. twenty years ago
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the largest country in the world disintegrated. one hundred pictures and many of the beach began a journey. where did it take the. wealthy british style to sign roles in the past but on the rise. in the. markets finance scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy in the kinds of reports on r.t. . moscow a limited physical institute and the academy of sciences the employees of the institute were the only people allowed to visit sacro in the city of gorky. his colleagues kept in touch with him during the whole seven year exile despite the difficulties such actions could bring them. when andre suffer of was in exile we
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did our best to preserve his office nobody took his place at table sign bearing his name was still hung on the door the subject there was attached to me in a side of the door and we separated by the wall guard at the side where you. know official soviet establishment is supposed to enforce law has taken responsibility for the fact if i feel towards haitians 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 gold case all of suck arose and bonus potential contacts were on the 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 sack of suddenly show up when you prepared you a state security officer approached me shoot his id card and instructed me as to
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how i was to serve succor of his war and if he happens to ask permission to make a phone call i was to tell him that. in one thousand nine hundred eighty resilient and grace 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 friends decided to go and find out who exactly sattar of wards. went to the fortune the first thing we saw was a man selling a table it turned out to be a policeman wearing civilian clothes. where no idea where interest her have lived and his neighbors showed us the way from the elevator. we rushed from the elevators fled there was on the right where prost the dorner christabel without hesitation. woman opened the door seconds later we learned it was here in the corner on the wall she gave us a look of surprise and we all stiffened raissa her of lived there she told us to
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come in and we did. 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 managed to repair without nails but what he heard from sucker of amaze the boy much more ordered leaders of the summer 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 all still for a souvenir were served gave me and my friend a fail well close colleague here is my post card i've kept it for thirty years now written in briefly to andrey tremendous ring you all does that k.g.b. can take it away from us because. an
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old two story mansion in the center of gorky was the only place where under a 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 these 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 it would ever be an end to his constant harassment is not and they even found a place in new york where they wanted to be buried there is neither of them hope to get out of this town of exile. the tension was extreme.
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cheering his exile sacro for went on hunger strike three times for the first joint or you'll end up on a. local doctors received an order it's a hospital i set off. 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. the force feed in involved quite rough methods as andreessen proof later recalled they fast and his arms and legs to the bad plays a clip 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 world three published them in response to soviet leadership started afresh pounds 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 of 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 of i didn't paragraphs denounces of their contents reveals that it was staged they picked people of various ends of the soviet union and told them right sucker write this and don't mention this and the. meanwhile support for the exiled academic was growing in the west the square in
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front of a soviet embassy in washington saw so many demonstrations he was named sacral plaza go unheard where washington. new york a decided before. steps a russian and there in the. street next to russian. united nations mission mission is a very middle part of a war that was renamed sucker of warner corner. is what it communist party has chosen mikhail gorbachev as his general secretary. in ninety 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 him his seventy exile was over to the still yes when the abnormality of the situation became clear everyone went
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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 underway in a country where it would go. a week off to 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 them he abstained 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 it was not the tane by the k.g.b. on his way led the growth of this research we covered to 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 can suffer of intended to enter the whole noiselessly in order not
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to interrupt a seminar not to draw everyone's attention to himself something incredible happens i spotted him and burst into applause was that a word you're. 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 sacra 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 if it got out on the war in afghanistan as a drawing. of an great following in itself. yet it's not clear usually held responsible for this great drawing by the country. his statements were judged offensive on the offices who had foreseen that war themselves one of satirists main opponents his name just said a gay child of an a peacekeeper
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a former paratrooper who lost both his legs in the war here that we're going to we're very shocked by the provocative behavior of this famous son to. thank you. today so again 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. overfull which was generally speaking apart from being a great physicist grew the sucker of was a very sincere and naive person who he was easily deceived and believed everything he heard was and i have to counter his statements in a harsh manner i think he was simply to see other people who surroundings of the 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 secularist point of 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 the letters had a 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're in egypt. on december fourteenth one thousand nine hundred eighty nine during a session of the congress sachar of gave an interview to kazakh television the questions concerned the future of the semi pro license test site in kazakstan it
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was a place where new clear weapons had been detonated for decades sachar of demanded that the sites be closed because the people who lived in this vicinity of paying too high a price for those nuclear tests. yeah. mankind will terminate a critical period of history when we can peters and inventing weapons of mass destruction but it is a kind of examination encompassing site that tests of the ability to survive a focus wish. it was his last interview a few hours later sucker of heart failed his friends image 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. a nice final
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year sachar of was drawn to 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. at the high standards of goods and devotion to the cause of the people sacrificed sex still needs to be fully understood. and that they were i'm sure the role is played in the liberation of russia from doctrine. would be justly pre-shared it was british if we did get a third of the.
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