Page "Andrei Sakharov" Paragraph 16

In 1973 and 1974 the Soviet media campaign targeted both Andrei Sakharov and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

While Sakharov disagreed with Solzhenitsyn ’ s Slavophile vision of Russian revival, he deeply respected him for his courage.

Only a few individuals in the Soviet Union dared to defend ' traitors ' like Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn, and those who had dared were inevitably punished.