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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That was too much for the Kremlin. Sakharov's earlier critiques of Soviet totalitarianism, and his impassioned pleas br political prisoners in the Gulag had long enraged the Soviet leaders. But they had been reluctant to arrest so famous a dissident for fear of jeopardizing the advantages of détente, including trade with the U.S. After the invasion of Afghanistan and Washington's punitive embargoes, the Soviets felt free to put Sakharov away. As one top State Department analyst explained the arrest: "Moscow figured there wasn't much more to lose because there was nothing much...