Andrei Sakharov

Witness: Archive 2010 by BBC

Dec 23, 20109:13Society & Culture

The nuclear physicist and human rights activist Andrei Sakharov had spent seven years in internal exile in the Soviet city of Gorky. His return marked a change in attitude towards dissidents under the rule of Mikhail Gor...

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