The Nuclear Dissident Andrey Sakharov
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The Nuclear Dissident Andrey Sakharov. CinemaVite cinematic history of dissent in ex-USSR as Nobel Peace Prize winner goes on hunger strike some are secret footage by KGB cameramen. Andrey Sakharov wanted permission for his wife to travel to the US for heart surgery.The human-rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner ended up not eating for 178 days in a series of hunger strikes. Elena Bonner
Svanidze said Bonner was not just Sakharov’s wife – “she was his muse.” She had great influence on him as a human rights activist. As the Soviet regime put pressure on her, Sakharov acted, “above all, as a defender of her ideas and then as a human rights activist for all Soviet people,” the journalist noted.
Yelena Bonner, a human rights activist and the widow of Andrey Sakharov, a famous nuclear scientist and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, has died in the US at the age of 88 She will be buried near her husband at Moscow’s Vostryakovo Cemetery. Bonner was arrested for anti-Soviet propaganda in 1984 and exiled to Gorki where Sakharov was exiled much earlier , but then was allowed to travel to the US, where she continued her political activity and criticism of the Russian political system.
Svanidze said Bonner was not just Sakharov’s wife – “she was his muse.” She had great influence on him as a human rights activist. As the Soviet regime put pressure on her, Sakharov acted, “above all, as a defender of her ideas and then as a human rights activist for all Soviet people,” the journalist noted.
Yelena Bonner, a human rights activist and the widow of Andrey Sakharov, a famous nuclear scientist and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, has died in the US at the age of 88 She will be buried near her husband at Moscow’s Vostryakovo Cemetery. Bonner was arrested for anti-Soviet propaganda in 1984 and exiled to Gorki where Sakharov was exiled much earlier , but then was allowed to travel to the US, where she continued her political activity and criticism of the Russian political system.