Karel van het Reve
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Karel van het Reve was a Dutch writer, translator and literary historian, teaching and writing on Russian literature.
Karel van het Reve in 1985
Andrei Sakharov
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Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov was a Soviet physicist and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, which he was awarded in 1975 for emphasizing human rights around the world.
Karel van het Reve
…a communist. He lost his 'faith' in his twenties and became an active critic and opponent of the Soviet regime. With his help, the work of dissident Andrei Sakharov was smuggled to the west, and his Alexander Herzen Foundation published dissident Soviet literature. He is considered to be one of the finest Dutch…
Sakharov in March 1989
Sakharov and Bonner in 1989
The apartment building in Gagarina Avenue 214, Scherbinki district of Nizhny Novgorod where Sakharov lived in exile from 1980 to 1986. His apartment is now a museum.
Sakharov with U.S. President Ronald Reagan in 1988