Word: kgb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issue. For Reporter-Researcher Sally Donnelly, the task of verifying the story was made even more challenging by the fact that the author could not be reached. Donnelly, who majored in Soviet studies at the London School of Economics, was struck by the relentlessness and brutality of the KGB. "But in their own way," she notes, "Bonner and Sakharov are every bit as relentless in fighting the system." Friedrich agrees: "It is a story of a fearless woman of indomitable character. It could be a story of a woman against the sea, against Mount Everest -- it has that adventure quality...
Bonner, who returned to the U.S.S.R. on June 2, writes with stark directness of life under the baleful eye of the Committee for State Security, better known as the KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti). A policeman is posted outside the door to the Sakharovs' Gorky apartment virtually round the clock. They cannot step outdoors without a KGB escort. They are denied a telephone (they use pay booths or a special phone center). Because of jamming, they must go to the edge of town, where reception is good, to listen to the radio. There are touching moments of warmth between "Andryusha...
...weeks were a radiant time. Our breakfasts literally took hours, because that was the time when we talked to each other the most -- about how we had lived without each other. We were outside a good deal during the day. We drove to small groves and gathered mushrooms. The KGB followed us constantly -- two cars of them -- and they walked in the woods between the trees, secretly filming...
...fact we were never alone for a minute. One day we went to the market and bought various kinds of fruits. Then we drove down to the bank of the Volga to have a light lunch of fruit and buns. That day was filmed by the KGB and shown as a typical day in the life of Sakharov. The films depicting Sakharov's life that I saw in America were edited to create the impression of a normal life, a normal state of health. Actually, it is one big hoax, a horrible lie. Another time, the world could watch films...
...said warily, "Don't be overjoyed, I have only got three hours." I must have looked puzzled, because he immediately added, "Sokolov came to see me again, he wants me to write certain papers." Without listening to anything else, I got upset and shouted, "The KGB can go f itself!" Andrei said calmly and quietly, "Just listen to me. They want you to write that if you are given permission to travel to see your mother and children and to get treatment, you will not hold press conferences, see reporters, or this or that." When I realized that all they...