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

just as can the soviets when forced to recognize the bravery of sakharov, the p.r.c. officials will be forced to recognize the bravery of dr. liu and to acknowledge it dozens of times a day, day after day after day. i realize that this is an expedited request, butf given the ongoing repression not only of the lius, but of so many other voices for political and religious freedom in china and the imminent arrival of the chinese leader who is directly responsible for it, i hope that my colleagues will join me. i intend to introduce a unanimous request for consent and it is my hope that all 100 senators will stand with me, but for the moment, i yield the floor. mr. cruz: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from texas. mr. cruz: madam president, for the reasons that i just detailed to this chamber, reasons that we should stand in bipartisan unanimity, in support of nobel peace prize laureate dr. liu xiaobo and in support of human rights and dissidents across the world, that we should follow the successful pattern of sakharov plaza under ronald reagan, this

and when gorbachev came to power, well, he thought sakharov would come back to moscow and she had, illed 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 what he was very proud of. the thing i meant the most very proud of a high quality of the cookies his wife had. actually they were pretty good. >> i think sakharov is a really important aspect of the late history of the soviet union. .. >> in a way, they spread to the political elite. it would have gotten arrested 20 years before, perhaps even 10 years before. what they did threaten is changes inside people's mind in a big way. it was a giant of the 20th century. >> david. >> there's a good book about to come out in october of a conference we had. it's going to be an important book. >> david holloway, stanford, when you responded to the most dangerous period when you were pessimistic you mentioned the aftermath in germany, as i recall president regan made a speech in january of 1994 that was widely s

like sakharov, he could not attend in person. but he accepted in absentia boldly declaring in his acceptance speech "hatred can rot away at a person's intelligence and conscience. enemy mentality will poison the spirit after nation, incite cruel mortal struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and hinder a nation's progress toward freedom and democracy. that is why i hope to be able to transcend my personal experiences as i look upon our nation's development in social change. to counter the regime's hostility with utmost good will and to dispel hatred with love." the very moment the nobel commission awarded the peace prize to lu, his wife was taken into custody by the p.r.c. she penned an open letter to chinese president in june 2013 decrying his unjustice arrest and detention, "i have been under house arrest and have lost all my personal freedoms since october 2010. no one has told me any reason for detaining me. i have thought about it over and over again. perhaps in this country, it is a crime for me to be liu xia