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Irina Ratushinskaya
The dissident poet was released from a prison camp on the eve of a US-Soviet summit between Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan.
On 9 October 1986 the dissident poet was released from a prison camp on the eve of a US-Soviet nuclear summit between Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan. Irina Ratushinskaya has been speaking to Louise Hidalgo about her imprisonment, her poetry, and the day she was set free.
(Photo: Irina and her husband Igor, arriving in London in December 1986. Credit: Topfoto)
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