Word: semashko
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were kept under constant surveillance by police. Neighbors and shopkeepers were barred from talking to them. Bonner and Sakharov, 64, were separated at least twice. When the Soviet government released film footage purportedly showing the Sakharovs strolling through Gorky last summer, he was actually on a hunger strike in Semashko Hospital, where Soviet doctors resorted to force-feeding him through the nose. The couple tried to get out word of their plight, but their messages were often altered to give the impression that all was well...