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1 WROTE in Socialist Organiser 40 of the case of Dr Anatoly koryagin. Me is now serving 12 years in a Russian labour camp for exposing the use of psychiatry to suppress political opposition. Meanwhile, the case of another dissident scientist seems about to come to a climax.
Andrei Dimitrievich Sakharov is one of the world's most brilliant phys. icists. Described as the 'father of the Russian H-Bomb' ', he did a lot of the original research into nucldar fusion possibly a safer method of gonerating nucibar power), contributed greatly to the acceptance of the quark theory of the structure of matter, and Les came up with some very original theories on the nature or gravity. MIS Is tne AL -sort of intellect that any socialist society would be only too happy to use, particularly since he is also a socialist.
However, he didn't confine himself to science. In the late '50s he became worried about the health dangers of testing atomic bombs in the atmosphere, and tried to get it stopped. In 1961, Khrushchev said that Sakharov might be a good scientist but he should leave politics to the politicians.
Sakharoy became more involved in resisting the suppression of opposition by tne stalinist bureauDon't hide behind work conservatism. Socialist Organiser, Thursday November
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