today's top stories in our review of the week here in r.t. brutal protests true greece after the government approved harsh new cuts to stop the country from drowning in its debts. the international criminal court issues and arrest warrants for the cut off is blaming the leading leader in order to tap some civilians but a new schools of interview targets he could out his son explain why he believes a court is nothing more than nails popping. u.s. captain of a gaza flotilla ship is arrested by greek authorities several international vessels with pakistan for many to carry an eight on board were forced to anchor in greece's water stall waiting what campaigners believe as pressure from israel and the u.s.

. up next meet the man who created the saudi union's first h. bomb and at the same time was the country's most famous dissident. december one thousand 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 joe for 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 andres sucker of and his life was full of kurds is. now known as the city of nizhny novgorod all 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 people 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. a lady to town and serve as

a retired transit police officer in the mid 1980's his unit was ordered to tales us of especially when was at the station saying. his wife elin aboard off to moscow go over all the children every officer had a specific task to carol's at all costs there were all task was to follow sokoloff 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 in the. during summer as exile to go to every facet of his life was closely monitored including his personal correspondence hundreds of letters of support has arrived from abroad when deceptive by the k.g.b. although the senators were always supplied with a notification that their mail had been delivered. via dr south and it has been

soon since they had had any leads a few well we're very concerned about your health and the health of life elana in there for the 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 he stand chemicals of the k.g.b. made a list of persons to restrict so her of from communicating that certain people of the k.g.b. were sure that some of these people were exiting on the 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 of the war with. 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 can present to western media as for 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 the house across the street there was a k.g.b. department who watch satirists 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 sacro side density he was the so-called secret academic these are some french shots of the cycles taking a train ride to the town not smarts on any of the world's maps a nuclear research center artisanal sixty lease is where sutter of worked on his hydrogen bomb in the late one nine hundred forty s. . i worked very hard as their cases is out to be of extreme importance to mankind that there is a balance of nuclear onus between the two great powers because that is exactly what

scared of these arms we have a belief system. this is the footage from the designation of the hydrogen bomb developed by 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 he left a strong impression inside her off despite the positive outcome of the new hydra draw. back if i've also heard of a portable they threw a small party in the test site to own a saucer of the main hero here with and he was allowed to open the evening post reporter so he also proposed the first two shots every one of your horses says i like to drink and all bomb exploding into science but never overtones in

a city is when you go down you've got a world it's not going to. other times several became acquainted with a dissident historian the royal mint did it 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 he came as a discovery will find out about the gulags about the system of terror that was the foundation of our further cooperation is started writing about politics some self and i brought 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 pleasure by officialdom and prejudices such a trinity 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 bloody dictatorship.

in the west the essay was an instant success selling millions of copies to authorities response was swift to satire 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 controversial issues soon sachar of came under the close eye of the k.g.b. . back in those years they often resorted to designing the dissidents abroad birdsong or of was too prominent a figure. also knew some state secrets though for no one even considered him going abroad as an option we'll go with. you you recall was a well known soviet dissident he first heard sacco's 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. 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 there and help us find out under a sucker of stores his essays and his activities with every inch of. distance used to typewrite suckers essays 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 and if you look at the two middle of the women flyers and wade close to the year it was in residential areas and back streets of and courtyards our flyers he said the truth and second of himself was saying exposed the lives that the soviet press started to publish about. it or whether it will.

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 sachar of met gill in a bonnet at a distant court trial. in a boiler is an old standing room of a strong character and she had a serious influence around race or her of as you know he was very open and you can feel there is wife's actions did influence his behavior. in one thousand nine hundred eighty s. prominent soviet artists are gay baucher of volunteered to paint sacral sport 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 born and because of her great influence over her husband. but as we told the dr

sokoloff i counted seven slaps on a gave him she says every time she didn't like. something and then i started to draw that she was shocked by even to draw me to when i said of course i will only draw you because you have a tremendous influence over your. shoulder my sketch she tried to rip it out of my hands and i actually had to run with it to save it from a. bottle or. some sort of took to heart any attack on his wife the author of the notorious soviet book cia versus u.s.s.r. who took the liberty of making an offensive reference to born a jew response from doc to sucker of and in public. on the summer of says first you should apologize to my wife in public as for you refused summer 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 a special operation to remove the leader of the tsunami soviet troops invaded afghanistan the soviet press would later kulis the international agency and several didn't hold back in publicly condemning the action calling its immigration he would not be forgiven for his remarks. really trained up to the customer reach on her way to work the traffic police cars suddenly got away the driver was just surprised that it's out and walked to the police because of all of it happening in the rear entrance okaloosa county medical and. they should deliberately carson said that they withdraw meatier in a district but in fact they were from the tragedy. and they tried returning it they came to follow the car there was also for like

a jail term for the prosecutor's office where prosecutor become color sets and make it a fraudulent. awards will come to terms authorities have decided that you should pay saw it's true this is regarding. the outskirts of gorky in the newly built area should have been key here and there a subset of and yellin and on the spend 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 sets of hidden civilians were shot and what reports were made it's all still a secret to this day. twenty years ago the largest country in the world to observe the greater good. of. what had been tremendous at each began

a journey. where did it take. russia would be soon which brightened if you knew about someone from the finest impressions. who threw stones on t.v. dot com. moscow a limited physical institute and the academy of sciences the employees of the institute where the only people allowed to visit sacro 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 took his place at table sign

bearing his name was still hung on the door of the study from the trash can 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 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 by case is glaring unlawfulness. meanwhile in gold all a sucker oath 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 sack of suddenly show up as state security officer approached me shoot his id card and instructed me as to how i was to serve sucker of me i was warned if it happens to ask for permission to make

a phone call i was to tell him they've already. in one thousand nine hundred eighty . and race 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 south 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. no idea where injuries or 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 dorner christabel without hesitation. woman opened the door seconds later we learned it was here in a ball and. she gave us a look of surprise and we all stiffened raissa her of lived there she told us to come in and we did. it with.

all sucker of was busy in his study and re-examine the whole flat in 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 the more he heard from sacral amazed the boy much more. serious told us that one of the basic reasons for his exile was opposition to the war in afghanistan we knew about this war and were aware that lots of organized were being killed or when we were leaving we all still for a souvenir were served gave me and my friend a fail well postcard each. postcard i've kept it for thirty years now the original briefly to andrey from and ring you all those that came to me can take it away from us. an old two story

mansion in the center of course 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 thora g.'s 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 satirise visits there were times when the academics ceased to believe there would ever be an end to his constant harassment is not the end they even found a place in newark where they wanted to be buried there is neither of them hope to get out of this town of exile. the tension was extreme.

cheering 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 to hospitalize sound off. the incident was put on record by the k.g.b. . today satirise 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 keep on his nose an already nutritious mixture into his now 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 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 please hold 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 can damn your outspoken credit yury. these abusive letters are actually very diverse but they have a similar structure. i didn't paragraphs denounces of their contents reveals that it was all staged they pick people from various ends of the soviet union and told them right suck 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 saw so many demonstrations it was named

satire of plaza haven't heard where washington. new york and he said it before we heard steps a russian and renamed park street next to russian. united nations mission very missionaries and middle part of a war that was remained sucker of warner corner. as well its communist party has chosen nico 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 him his seventy exile was over at a still yesterday 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 underway in the country so it is. a week of the gorbachev phone calls etc of return to moscow and was make by dozens of journalists sattar of had no idea what was in store for them if 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 led the rest of the threesome in the windows to the seminar as usual on tuesday it was a seminar very much like the one that is being held here right now so none of the seminar started and then came suffer 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 as positive and burst into applause was that a word your thank you 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 sachar found himself at the center of a scandal that flared up in the first days of the session he had condemned the situation concerning the soviet troops in afghanistan if he got out on the war in afghanistan as a troy we live in the great drawing in itself. it called stop play i should be held responsible for this great crime by country. his statements were judged offensive by the offices who were fortunate with themselves one of such thrills main opponents as may just said a gay child of an a piece a former paratrooper who lost both his legs in the war. we're very shocked by the

provocative behavior of his famous son to. thank. today surrogate lives in kiev and his head of the ukrainian war veterans group he still believes that sucker of was to go about in trusting people who provided him with information including that on the situation in afghanistan. generally speaking apart from being a great physicist grew the sucker of was a very sincere and naive person he was easily deceived and believed everything he heard he was and i have to counter his statements in a harsh manner i think he was simply to see for the people who surround it as a political course of the young but still gay expressed a populist standpoint among soviets in relation to the conflict in afghanistan

those who supported secularist 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 sacral started to receive letters once again just like in the old days this time however the lessons have been much different tone to those that previously filled his mailbox during his gawky exile. dear dr suffer of please accept my deepest apologies for the so called publish millionaires 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 a congress sahar of gave an interview to kazakhs television the questions concerned the future of the senate a lot since guest sides in 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 vicinity were paying too high a price for those nuclear tests. yeah right that mankind's will terminate a critical period of history is when we can peters and inventing weapons of mass destruction. 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 even told him the previous day we're deeply shocked. there had been no one in science. thousands of people came to bid farewell to the academic sucker 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 early articles and his political supporters had lost their chance of meeting him in person. while at the high standards of goods and devotion to the cause of the people and sorrow of the set still needs to be fully understood. and are there but i'm sure the role is played in the liberation of russia from doctrines. would be just really appreciated of british avoided that a third of the.