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Dorte Schmidt-Brown
18. October, 2008Dorte Schmidt-Brown (Danish) working for the EU’s Eurostat statistical agency, in January 2001, disclosed concerns about suspicious contracts agreed by Eurostat that led to official investigations and uncovered a trail of scandal and fraud at the agency. Nothing Schmidt-Brown said has been disproved, yet she has paid heavily for her disclosures. The Dane, who joined
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Jussi Merklin
18. October, 2008Faklen nr. 3 · Forår 1997 DEN DANSKE DISSIDENT I 1979 blev en embedsmand i Finansministeriet, cand.polit. Jussi Merklin reelt offer for Berufsverbot efter at have kritiseret den danske stats tiltagende overvågning og registrering af borgerne. Med baggrund i et intimt insider-kendskab til statsadministrationen har han siden udarbejdet en omfattende dokumentation af i hundredvis af
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Andrei Sakharov
18. October, 2008RUSSIAN DISSIDENT WRITER STRIPPED OF SOVIET CITIZENSHIP One of the three founding members of the Moscow Human Rights Committee, 1970 (Dr. Sakharov and Andrei Tverdokhlebov). Were given exit permits to give lectures in the United States but then not allowed back to Russia. He was an unlikely activist. Born in Moscow in 1921, Sakharov was
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Alexander Ginzburg
18. October, 2008Alexander Ginzburg and the Resistance to Totalitarian Evil, Then and Now By Jamie Glazov FrontPageMagazine.com | August 6, 2002 Alexander Ginzburg, 65, a former leading Soviet dissident, died on July 19, 2002 in his adopted city of Paris. Ginzburg fought for human rights during the Khrushchev and Brezhnev eras and was frequently jailed for his
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Zhores Medvedev
18. October, 2008RUSSIAN DISSIDENT WRITER STRIPPED OF SOVIET CITIZENSHIP Zhores Aleksandrovich Medvedev born Nov. 14, 1925, Tbilisi, Georgia, U.S.S.R. [now in Georgia] Soviet biologist who became an important dissident historian in the second half of the 20th century. For a full exposition of the possibilities of behaviouralist psychiatry as means of social and political control we have
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Vladimir Maximov
18. October, 2008RUSSIAN DISSIDENT WRITER STRIPPED OF SOVIET CITIZENSHIP On November 27th the well-known Russian dissident writer of the 1970s and 80s Vladimir Maksimov would have turned 70. A sad joke illustrates the gloomy atmosphere of those times: “Don’t think. If you think, don’t write. If you think and write, don’t sign. If you think, write and
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn
18. October, 2008Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was becoming a dissident against the U.S.S.R. and the restricting communist government after he was arrested for the first time. He, through his entire life, was willing to sacrifice everything he had in order to point out that censorship was wrong and people should be able to speak their mind. ————— About his
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Victor Sokolov
18. October, 2008RUSSIAN DISSIDENT WRITER STRIPPED OF SOVIET CITIZENSHIP On September 7, 1976, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR decreed that Victor Sokolov be deprived of his Soviet citizenship for “activities discrediting the rank (title) of a Soviet citizen.” Victor Sokolov is a dissident writer who has regularly published articles critical of the Soviet
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Emile Zola, 1840 – 1902
18. October, 2008Emile Zola was a French journalist turned novelist. His novels were attacked and even banned for their frankness and sordid detail, causing quite a bit of controversy in their day. In 1898 he incurred the wrath of officials when he published the open letter “J’Accuse,” in defense of Alfred Dreyfus, an Army officer who had
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Alfred Dreyfus, 1859 – 1935
18. October, 2008In 1894 Captain Alfred Dreyfus of France was accused of selling military secrets to Germany. In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus was tried for high treason and sentenced to life imprisonment in total isolation on Devil’s Island, off the coast of the peal colony of French Guiana. It took many years for the truth to
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