Word: medvedev
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They do feel jeopardized by what is brewing in the West and genuinely want to slow that down if they can." In Moscow, Historian Roy Medvedev, one of the Soviet Union's leading independent thinkers, says: "Our military budget is already at the limit of what the country can afford without cutting back on vital sectors of the civilian economy. Our leaders sincerely do not want an arms race...
There is a dark side to Soviet psychiatry: its misuse as a political weapon to punish dissidents, in 1970 Biologist Zhores Medvedev, who now lives in London, was committed to a psychiatric hospital on the order of his city commune. He was released 19 days later, after a wave of international protest. Medvedev had struck a deal with hospital authorities that if discharged he would write nothing about his hospitalization or the struggle to get him out; when he learned that he would have to report regularly to mental health centers for follow-up care, he and his brother, Historian...