Andrei Sakharov

and famine and terrible tragedies for families and societies. When we take a brief look back in time, history teaches us a lesson. Just after Andrey Sakharov had developed the first Soviet hydrogen bomb in 1955, the nuclear arms race and Soviet doctrine seriously troubled him. Because he saw that human rig

and aggression, starting in the late 1980s and the early 1990s, Armenians have been massacred and expelled from their homes. Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrei Sakharov called those actions a threat of a new genocide against the Armenian people. This year again, in early April, in blatant violation of the ceasefire a

es and members of both Western European and American human rights movements, writers and politicians, people like Francois Mitterrand, Olof Palme and Andrei Sakharov, all of whom have supported us through personal contacts. I am naming but a few of those who have always known that the struggle for human rights, fr

person whose statements have been quoted so readily by the President of the United States - even the day before yesterday. That person is academician Andrei Sakharov, who said: "My opinion as regards this programme is different from that of the Reagan Administration... it is also wrong to assert that the existence

And Andrei Sakharov, in his Nobel Lecture, said: "I am convinced that international confidence, mutual understanding, disarmament, and International security are inconce

who have been claiming basic human rights for themselves and their fellow citizens cause us the gravest concern. A case in point is the sad affair of Andrei Sakharov and his wife, Yelena Bonner. 202. The need to improve the lot of the least developed countries of the world and to strengthen the basis for their eco

intervention. Solzhenitsyn in anguished words has said: "My words of caution, the .words of caution of others, the very serious warnings addressed by Sakharov directly from the Soviet Union, all continue to go unheeded. Most of them fall on deaf ears, the ears of those who do not wish to hear them. I did on

change in the international climate. Our concern for detente should not lead us to ignore the desperate bid for freedom by men such as Solzhenitsyn, Sakharov, Levich and other scientists and thinkers who fall under governmental harassment and oppression. 87. The saga of Soviet Jewry belongs to this theme,