“But what about the sufferings of the innocent? Worst of all is the hell that exists in the special psychiatric clinics in Dnieperopetrovsk, Sytshevk, Blagoveshensk, Kazan, Chernakovsk, Oriol, Leningrad, Tashkent, ….”

— Andrei Sakharov

Nobel Peace Prize Speech (1975)

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Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist 1921–1989

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