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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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Knut Hamsun
18. October, 2008Dikteren Knut Hamsun skrev i Aftenposten (ukjent dato). ‘Den (regjeringen) gav Ordre til Mobilisering. Den visste at vi ikke hadde noget at berge oss med overfor nogen. Men den gav ordre til Mobilisering og rømte‘. Hamsun ble tiltalt som forræder for oppropet, men ikke biskopen. I 1940 var det mange som delte Hamsun og biskopens
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Harry Lindstrøm
18. October, 2008Les i Prosessen mot Lindstrøm om hvor ille det kan gå enkeltmennesker når politikere, media, politi og rettsvesen spiller på lag. “Det er blitt en bok som bør være å finne i alle redaksjoner, på politiske partikontorer, advokatkotorer, og i mange eksemplarer på Stortingets bibliotek….. Det er nemlig et politisk justismord boken forteller om.” Tidligere
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Jonathan Pollard
18. October, 2008SHIMON PERES IS KEEPING JONATHAN POLLARD IN PRISON (The Real Reason Why Pollard Sits) by Barry Chamish In early May, ’03, I was hired by a group of Israelis now organizing rallies on behalf of Joanathan Pollard’s freedom to find out why, defying all reason, he is still sitting in prison. The people who approached
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