his name was andrei sakharov and tolkachev was inspired by sakharov and also by the dissident writer sosin eat-in. solzhenitsyn's's books came home and natasha brought them the carbon paper dogeared copies that were passed from person to person. while sakharov insults in eden were in the limelight as dissidents tolkachev was in the shadows. he fixed radios with a soldering gun and tackled other home repair projects with great satisfaction. he was a real loner even to those in his family. never once did his young son talk about what he did there. he liked to go on an isolated camping trip in the rugged baltic sea area the soviet union rather than take a free pass to some fancy soviet style resort. by the mid-1970s tolkachev was really getting burned up and deciding he had to do something but what? he told the cia the source of his anger was that everything in the soviet union was going wrong and bad trait he said soviet politics literature and philosophy had been in that quote and mashed for a long time in such an impassable hypocritical demagoguery and ideological empty talk that he

and a good friend of mine and a person for whom i have the highest respect for his career is andrei sakharovsing hasn't been mentioned once, and i was -- his name has been mentioned once and i'm wondering if it reflects a judgment that really did the human rights movement beyond his bomb building was not much of a factor in the course of events, am i correct, or is that anything you could add to that? >> well, i think he was a presence were very well aware of. i believe by the time i took office he was banished to corky, but we could see here's a man who stood up to this regime. i think it was over continued testing which he objected to end was very clear about it. so he stood up to the regime and he was banished. but we kept come we always will we thought we had a big human rights agenda, he was audit. and when gorbachev came to power, well, he thought sakharov would come back to moscow and she had, i called on him a couple of times. you told me you called on him once at the neighbors were objecting because the symphony came and played for them and they said it's too noisy around here get w

the bravery of andrei sakharov was instrumental in bringing down a great and oppressive empire, armed only with the truth, he was able to expose to the world the reality of soviet communism, the futility of trying to placate or dough mess city indicate the -- domesticate the regime and the power of human rights. today we have a case before us that is eerily reminiscent of sakharov's legacy. dr. l u u xiapo wrvment awarded the peace price in 2010 sits today in a chinese jail for the crime of subversion. a poet, author, and political scientist, dr. lu was in 1989 a visiting scholar at columbia university. but when the pro-democracy protests broke out in beijing in june of that year, he returned to china to aid the movement. he staged a hunger strike in tiananmen square in the midst of the historic student protests and insisted the protests would be nonviolent, even in the face of the violence threatened by the people's republic of china. the p.r.c. arrested lu for his involvement in the tiananmen square demonstration and sentenced him to two years in prison. in 1996 the party subjected