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cold war has been a bunch from leaving greek ports and while the palestinian leader accidents are phones offered to deliver the end use to the enclave will be out of the campaign and. up next our special report all soviet scientist andrei sakharov a graciousness soviet union's hydrogen bomb and become the country's most disciplined. december one thousand nine hundred eighty six in the u.s.s.r. as 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 giove please return and continue your patriotic activity. the person these words were

dressed to to spend 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 nizhny novgorod all the key was closed to foreigners in the soviet times because it has the 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 and cloues 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 lead the talents of his era time 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 bonnet 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 and we were to ensure that he doesn't get to speak with any strangers written. during summer as exile to go to key 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. although the strangers were always supplied with a notification that their mail had been delivered. via dr satcher it has been so long since they have had any use of the well being we're very concerned about your health and the health of wife elin i've been there when most anxious to hear preview and would greatly appreciate a response to this letter many people here in the united states and in canada supports and the principles for which it stands political skills of the k.g.b. major lists of persons to restrict so her of from communicating with certain people occasionally were sure that some of these people were acting under orders of western intelligence services to collect information on the settlers of the discipline of mint in the soviet union and the involvement of prominent public figures who were with. 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 for the human rights activists sacral was alive and well. sahar of could feel it 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 sacco side then see he was the so-called secret academic these are some rash shots of the psychos taking a train ride to town not smarts on any of the world's maps the nuclear research center are as a must sixty this is where sucker of worked on his hydrogen bomb in the late one

nine hundred forty s. . i worked very hard as i can sort his own tiles to be of extreme importance to mankind. balance of nuclear owners between the two great powers because that is exactly what scared cease at these arms of a belief system. this is the footage from the detonation of the hydrogen bomb developed i don't delay some sort of the u.s.s.r. had managed to beat the united states in developing the terrifying weapon of mass destruction sacro for came an academic he's only thirty six years 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 off despite the cost of outcome of the new hydra bomb.

they threw a small party in the tests on a summer of the main hero here with us and he was allowed to open the evening of course he also propose the first two shots everyone you're her she says i'd like to drink all bomb exploding into sites but never overtones a city is only me when you go down you've got a war that's going to. and that time settled became acquainted with the dissident historian roy did it he was the first soviet author to write a book about the true personality of joseph stalin then you will believe in for a second of himself that he came as a discovery will find out about the gulags about that system of terror and that was the foundation of our further cooperation he started writing about politics and self and i bought an 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 trinity of freedom of thought is the only guarantee against people being

contaminated by masked myths which in the hands of treacherous hypocrites and demagogues can be transformed into a bloody dictatorship. in the west the usa was an instant success selling millions of copies to authorities response was swift to satire of was banned from working in paris and was sixteen and moved to moscow there the academic attended underground meetings and took part in discussions on the controversial issues soon sachar of came under the close eye of the k.g.b. the border with back in those years they often resorted to exile ing the dissidents abroad birdsong or of was to prominence 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 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 radio jamming with. this 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 sucker of stores essays and his activities with a great. distance used to typewrite suckers essays they covertly posted them on the streets k.g.b. agents were in a permanent lookout for them they sparkle against the grassroots movement raged for many years before it welcome regular women flyers and weighed close to the year it was good in residential areas and back streets and courtyards our fliers is

that the truth and the cycle of himself was saying and exposed the lives of the soviet press started to publish about and i know it was political where 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 succumbed to cancer. a few years later satire of meadville in a bonnet and a dissident called trial. lawyer is an outstanding woman with a strong character and she had a serious influence around race saw her of 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 daughter 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. as we told the doc to start off i counted seven slaps on a gave him changes every time she didn't like. something and then i started to draw her she was shocked even to draw me to and i said of course i will only draw you because you have a tremendous influence over him. 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 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. and i took the liberty of making the fence of reference to born a jew response from dr sucker of and in public. that it was summer of says first you should apologize to my wife in public others less refused summer of

came up to him and slapped him in the face although not too hard i'm a left and the desire of gleefully sent a telegram to his relief i slapped him. december nineteen 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 treaty several didn't hold back in publicly condemning the action calling it an integration he would not be forgiven for his remarks. earlier froze up to the casino and skipped rich on her way to work traffic police cars suddenly got a sorry way. driver for to surprised the towns and walked to the police knocking over the governors of the re and from south dakota and a two man climbed a. tree they showed a great idea carson said that they were from

a theory ministry but in fact they were from the k.g.b. . and the driver it said they came to follow the car but there was also from a cage a big looker who came to the prosecutors office where prosecutor becomes the boss said to make it a project. awards accountant authorities have decided that she should be exhausted this is her clash with. the outskirts of gorky in the newly built area should have been key 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 are watching several how many cassettes of kin civilians were shot and what reports were made it's all still a secret to this day. cultures that so much are going to each with their

share of power and find that the mark left as real as starts his military withdrawal from iraq what his fate hold for the kurds and if the kurds strive towards an independent state what is. moscow a live 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 key. 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 did our best to preserve his office here rule nobody took his place at the table signed 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 stated. no official soviet establishment supposed to enforce the law has taken responsibility for the fact of life 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 glaring unlawfulness. meanwhile in gold case all is sucker of and gone as 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 sacrifice suddenly show up and we prepared you a state security officer approached me shoot you say dick are instructed me as to how i was to serve sucker of you was war and if it happens to ask for permission to make a phone call i was to tell him live. in one thousand nine hundred eighty resident

and the race 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 selling 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 for there was on the right where prost the door no press the bell with no hesitation was a woman opened the door seconds later we learned it was here in the barn and you're going the woman she gave us a look of surprise and we all stiff and raising her of lived 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 managed to repair without nails but what he heard from sacro of amaze the boy much more. zero 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 also came for a civilian serve gave me and my friend a fail well postcard each. postcard i've kept it for thirty years now they're written in briefly to andrey commander a year alders that k.g.b. can take it away from us with. an old two story mansion in the center of gorky was the only place where and the race

ahead 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 an ex article the key by the soviet or thora g.'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 several 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 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. cheering his gorky exile sucker of went on hunger strike three times for the first

joined by you'll end up 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 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 groups later recalled they fastened his arms and legs to the bad plays the clip on his nose and pour it in your trisha's mixture into his mouth whenever he took a breath. in one thousand nine hundred eighty three secor of managed to leak to the west a new work to be published then in response the soviet leadership started afresh pounds of open persecution one of the central u.s.s.r. newspapers published an article composed by four soviet academics who choose sachar

off. 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 crabtree. these abusive letters are actually very diverse but they have a similar structure order with those of i didn't paragraphs of their contents that it was all staged they picked people of various ends of the soviet union and told them write sacrifice write this and don't mention. meanwhile support for the exiled academic was growing in the west the square in front of the soviet embassy in washington source so many demonstrations it was named secular of plaza having heard the word washington.

new york and decided to follow. what steps the russian. renamed park street next to russian. united nations mission very mission isn't very middle part of a war that was renamed sucker of warner corner. is world a communist party has chosen mikhail 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 receive that famous call from colbert's off he told you his seven year exile was over the still yes 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 the country. than a week of 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 even steyn from giving any political statements the first place he visited was his album after the 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 grocer through similar whichever's to the seminal as usual on tuesday it was a seminar very much like the one that is being held here right now in a seminar started and then came subtle of intended to enter the whole noiselessly in order not to interrupt the seminar not to draw everyone's attention to himself something incredible happened i spotted him a good system to applause was the border of. soon sector of was elected to the

supremes council as a delegate from the academy of sciences was in june one thousand nine hundred eighty 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 the soviet troops in afghanistan egypt not on the war in afghanistan as a drawing. of a great front in itself. if you have held stock player should be held responsible for this great crime by a country. his statements were judged offensive on the offices who had foreseen that war themselves one of the satirist main opponents has may just set a gay children a peacekeeper a former paratrooper who lost both his legs in the war. we're very shocked by the provocative behavior of his famous son to.

today sergey lives in kiev and is 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. over from was 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 just see for the people who surround is a political course of the young surrogates pressed a populist standpoint to months 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 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 need you. on december fourteenth one thousand nine hundred eighty nine during a session of the congress sattar of gave an interview to kazakhs television the questions concerned the future of the cynical lass in test site in kazakstan it was a place when you clear weapons had been designated for decades sacral demanded that the site be closed because the people who lived in this vicinity or paying too high

a price for those nuclear tests. yeah right that mankind will terminate a 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 focus will shift. it was his last interview a few hours later satirise heart failed his friends the maternal dream of the previous day would deeply shocked. they had no warning signs. 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 in and read sachar of 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 inside of his set still needs to be fully understood. and that there would i'm sure the role is trailing the liberation of russia from doctrines or would be justly appreciated with british of would have had the fate of the.

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