Word: rekunkov
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Deputy Chief Prosecutor Alexander Rekunkov read Sakharov a decree issued by President Leonid Brezhnev; it stripped Sakharov of all the honors he had been awarded as the father of 1 Soviet hydrogen bomb, including three orders of Hero of Socialist Labor, the U.S.S.R.'s highest civilian decoration. A stickler for legality, Sakharov coolly complained that Brezhnev's signature on the document had been typed and not handwritten Sakharov was told that he would be exiled to the city of Gorky (formerly Nizhni Novgorod) for "subversive activities," and then was allowed to phone his wife. Given two hours, Yelena...