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Dr. Gerard Low-Beer visited Moscow and examined nine Soviet political dissidents, including
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418:Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko
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1038:Konstantin Paustovsky
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354:Moscow Helsinki Group
349:Solzhenitsyn Aid Fund
189:The Gulag Archipelago
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1083:Vladimir Pribylovsky
898:Michail J. Makarenko
738:Vitaliy Kalynychenko
508:Viacheslav Chornovil
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1404:Writers from Moscow
1253:Aleksandras Štromas
1248:Vladimir Strelnikov
1243:Galina Starovoytova
1193:Alexander Shatravka
1103:Irina Ratushinskaya
1073:Alexandr Podrabinek
1053:Yekaterina Peshkova
928:Myroslav Marynovych
913:Nadezhda Mandelstam
803:Zoya Krakhmalnikova
753:Ephraim Kholmyansky
723:Sofiya Kalistratova
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1434:Russian male poets
1363:Alexander Zinoviev
1353:Venedikt Yerofeyev
1333:Vladimir Voinovich
1313:Tatyana Velikanova
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528:Andrey Derevyankin
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923:Valeriy Marchenko
918:Anatoly Marchenko
823:Anatoly Kuznetsov
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623:Vladimir Gershuni
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503:Boris Chichibabin
488:Vladimir Bukovsky
478:Vladimir Bougrine
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1183:Avital Sharansky
1173:Igor Shafarevich
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1158:Iryna Senyk
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768:Lev Kopelev
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498:Lev Chernyi
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1278:Les Tanyuk
1258:Vasyl Stus
1013:Yuri Orlov
978:Ion Moraru
593:Ilya Gabay
538:Ivan Drach
239:References
40:1930-03-18
1293:Enn Tarto
873:Jüri Lina
818:Jüri Kukk
758:Yuliy Kim
1133:Ain Saar
683:Ivan Hel
380:Memorial
227:See also
123:Movement
109:samizdat
139:Russian
84:Russian
218:Almaty
210:Poiski
97:Russia
74:Russia
70:Moscow
48:Moscow
268:1983
59:Died
34:Born
186:'s
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309:t
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