1938. Andrei Amalrik was born

75 years ago, on May 12, 1938, Andrei Alekseevich Amalrik, historian, publicist, dissident was born.

Expelled from the History Faculty of Moscow State University for the terminal work, in which he defended the "Norman theory" of the origin of the Russian state. He wrote plays in the spirit of "Theater of the absurd".

In May 1965, he was arrested and sentenced to two and a half years in Siberia for parasitism. Together with Pavel Litvinov, he compiled a collection of “process of four” about the trial of Alexander Ginzburg, Yuri Galanskov, Alexei Dobrovolsky and Vera Lashkova.

In 1969, he wrote an essay “Will the Soviet Union will pass until 1984?”, Where he pointed to the inevitable collapse of the USSR, including because of a possible war with China.

In 1970, he was arrested and sentenced to 3 years in camps under Article 190-1 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR ("Distribution of knowingly false fabrications defaming the Soviet social and state system"). In court he said: “Neither the“ hunting for witches ”, nor its private example - this court - does not cause me the slightest respect, or even fear. I understand, however, that such courts are designed to intimidate many, and many will be intimidated - and yet I think that the process of ideological emancipation is irreversible. ”

On May 21, 1973, on the end of his deadline, a new case was opened against Amalric under the same article, and he received another three years of camps. However, due to the hunger strike and the protest in the world, the verdict was replaced by a three-year link to Magadan.

In 1976 he became one of the founders of the Moscow Helsinki group. In July 1976 he was forced to emigrate. In exile, he wrote memoirs "Notes of the dissident." Rehabilitated for all court cases in 1991.