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That night, Dina Zisserman joined the group at the Medvedkovs. Dina's husband Vladimir Brodsky, a surgeon and neurocardiologist, is serving a three-year sentence in a labor camp under charges of "malicious hooliganism." His "crimes" include standing in front of the Academy of Sciences building with a sign that read, "No one will survive a nuclear winter." Once in prison, Brodsky began a hunger strike in protest of his imprisonment, and his health rapidly deteriorated. Officials offered to release him if he renounced the Trust Group; he refused...
Yureii and Olga Medvedkov, Dina Zisserman, and many other members of the group are also refuseniks. To Yureii Medvedkov, the right to emigrate is one of a broad slate of human rights that are indivisible from peace activism. "To be a peace activist is a right," he insists. Refuseniks, by applying to leave have already crossed into a realm of dissent which sets them apart from ordinary Soviet citizens. While simply wanting to leave is not usually considered dissent in Western countries, a desire to leave is considered tantamount to treason in the Soviet Union. As a result refuseniks...
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