Word: sakharovs
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Revel faults Western leftists for short memories. Those who discount the warnings of such dissidents as Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov and concede only "unfortunate exceptions" to the Communist ideal are displaying the same false optimism as those who dismissed rumors of Soviet concentration camps two decades ago. "Many independents on the left," Revel charges, "are 'Finlandized' from within-willing to accept all manner of self-censorship on behalf of Stalinism." A case in point: the refusal of many Socialists to face up to the meaning of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia...
...been trying to pretend that it is a Parliament, which it is not," and acidly (but accurately) observed that "most of the governments represented do not themselves govern by consent of their citizens." He then quoted a plea by dissident Russian Scientist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Andrei Sakharov for a worldwide amnesty for political prisoners. At this, the Soviet delegate, Yakov Malik strode out in protest...
When the award to Sakharov was announced in October, the Soviet press dismissed the Nobel Prize as "a cold war weapon" and denounced the five-member Nobel committee for "political speculating." Still, the Kremlin last week dispatched Economist Leonid Kantorovich to collect his own Nobel Prize in Stockholm (where all but the peace awards are distributed), and sent five former Russian winners as well...
Many of the past Nobel winners who made the trip to Oslo were outraged at the Kremlin's treatment of Sakharov. Linus Pauling, the 1954 winner in chemistry who lost his U.S. passport for a while in 1951 when he was under investigation for alleged Communist activities, disclosed that he had signed a cable to the Soviet leaders asking that they change their decision about Sakharov. Said he: "I feel people should be allowed to travel...
Symbolic Guests. While his wife was in Oslo, Sakharov was in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius trying-unsuccessfully-to appear as a character witness at the trial of a friend, Biologist Sergei Kovalev, who was charged with circulating "slanderous fabrications" including an underground Roman Catholic journal. Still awaiting trial on a similar charge is another Sakharov friend, Physicist Andrei Tverdokhlebov. In his award speech, Sakharov described the two imprisoned men as "noble defenders of justice, legality, honor and truthfulness," and invited them to be his symbolic guests in Oslo. As the Nobel ceremonies ended, Kovalev received the unusually severe sentence...