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Hyde Prark Civilizace ENG - Natalya Gorbanevskaya (Russian dissident, member of the Brave eight)
Episode 281
Published 6 years, 1 month ago
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Natalya Gorbanevskaya, a courageous woman who with seven others took part in the 1968 Red Square demonstration against the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. She was incarcerated, declared to be of unsound mind and locked up in a psychiatric hospital. After her release, she became involved in protests against Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s deportation from the USSR and against the use of psychiatric facilities to torture political prisoners. One of the magnificent eight answered your questions in Hyde Park Civilization. Watch the dissident’s answers in Russian. The moderator speaks in Czech.
www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1044129…vakia-in-1968/