Great citizen

Andrei Sakharov - 90 years

Great citizen.
** On May 21, the 90th anniversary of the birth of an academician, Laureate of the Nobel Prize of the World Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov, who largely determined the development of public consciousness in the USSR in the second half of the twentieth century, marks. The ingenious physicist, who is considered the creator of the Soviet thermonuclear bomb, the largest scientist, who was fighting for the independence of scientific thought, a deep thinker-he, due to professional honesty and civic responsibility in the 60s, became the leader of the struggle for human rights and civil freedom. For the right of all people, all of mankind for life - therefore, he began to fight for the prohibition of testing nuclear weapons. For the right of a Soviet man, to openly express his opinion, to live where you want, and not where you are prescribed. For freedom from ideological dictatorship, against persecution for political and religious views. This led him to disgrace and exile, and after returning to Moscow during the years of perestroika-to the struggle at the Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR for real multi-party science, the abolition of the 6th article of the Constitution about the “leading and guiding force” of the CPSU. Sakharov’s moral authority was so high that he became a kind of symbol of the country's liberation from the Soviet past. With the death of Andrei Dmitrievich in 1989, the democratic movement of Russia lost its rod, and who knows whether this moral support was the absence of this standard of honest policy, at the head of which, the country, allowed the country to roll back far, to the actual elimination of the basic democratic institutions and a massive violation of civil and political rights.

What did the Academician of Sakharov mean for the human rights movement in the 70-80s and how he was persecuted by the authorities (p. 5), what his name of today's youth (p. 9) says, how the memory of him (p. 14) is stored and about the new national mythology, in which Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov is not there (p. 15), in the main topic of the number ***