Word: marchenko
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...obvious source of friction in the Soviet leader's dealings with Western politicians, who want Moscow to improve its human rights policies. The move ensures that Sakharov, who at 65 is in delicate health, will not die in exile, a politically embarrassing prospect. Early last month Soviet Dissident Anatoli Marchenko died in prison of a brain hemorrhage following a hunger strike...
...remain in prison, internal exile or psychiatric hospitals, to be sure, but none as famous as Sakharov and Bonner. Over the past year, Gorbachev has tried to reverse the Soviet Union's negative human-rights image by releasing two well-known activists, Anatoli Shcharansky and Yuri Orlov. Another, Anatoli Marchenko, 48, died in prison in early December, the victim of a brain hemorrhage following a hunger strike. His death may have induced the Kremlin to make a gesture of reconciliation and at the same time rid itself of the burden of the Sakharovs' incarceration...
...advocate brought to America a treasured photo of Sasha, grown up, that is touchingly inscribed to her. But she has other, tragic memories of the dissidents she could not save from injustice: Yuri Galanskov, who died of mistreatment in the Gulag; Ilya Gabay, who killed himself in despair; Anatoli Marchenko, who was sent back to the camps for ten years after three terms of imprisonment and exile...
...have been or still are in labor camps, and others have been persecuted by the government or expelled from the Communist Party. But they share the same bold disregard for Soviet views, displaying a remarkable willingness to speak, although many have already experienced the consequences of such openness. Anatoly Marchenko, for 17 years a political prisoner and newly sentenced to 10 years in a labor camp and five years of exile writes...
...vodka flowed, customary Russian conviviality was mixed with concern over the fate of Marchenko, jailed because of his prison camp memoirs, and similar worries about a host of other victims of the latest squeeze of Soviet repression. Tatyana Yankelevich, Sakharov's stepdaughter, who immigrated to Boston in 1977, angrily denounced Soviet officials who are "demonstrating their power on the bones of the best citizens of Russia." Biologist Vladimir Bukovsky, 38, who had spent nine years in Soviet prisons and camps before he was exchanged for a Chilean Communist in 1976, listed some of the dissidents who have recently been...