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.