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World Service,23 Dec 2010,10 mins

Andrei Sakharov

Witness History

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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 Gorbachev.

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