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Yelena Georgiyevna Bonner was a human rights activist in the former Soviet Union and wife of the physicist Andrei Sakharov. During her decades as a dissident, Bonner was noted for her characteristic blunt honesty and courage. Wikipedia  

✵ 15. February 1923 – 18. June 2011
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“It cost Andrei Dmitrievich 10 months of complete isolation and two hunger strikes over two months, which had a terrible effect on his health. The effects are still felt to this day.”

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Of the effort to get her to the USA for an operation. Washington Post November 16, 1989 http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-1223343.html

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