The Humanizing Role Of Andrei Sakharov
December 22, 2016 16:08 GMT
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The usual narrative of the unraveling of the Soviet Union moves from the promising reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev to the dashed hopes of Boris Yeltsin to the authoritarian counterrevolution of Vladimir Putin. But within that narrative, the story of Andrei Sakharov the physicist, human rights advocate, and 1975 Nobel Peace Prize laureate who died on December 14, 1989 is one of the tantalizing might-have-beens. If [Sakharov s] ideas had been realized even by half, we would be living in a different country, a completely different state, Russian political analyst Valery Khomyakov told RFE/RL in May.
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