New York Times: Andrei Sakharov's essay.

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by Angela K. Durden
The Most Brilliant Woman in the World

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Where were you fifty years ago? 

I was a mere child dealing with an abusive family life while we ran from one town to the next just steps ahead of the law. What did I know of politics and world events? Nothing, that's what I knew.

But even I heard the name Andrei Sakharov and knew that he had been put in the gulag for daring to speak up about things that were wrong in his country. But that is all I knew. What country? Which wrong? 

On the 50th anniversary of Sakharov's essay being published in the New York Times, that publication is making available PDFs of the original three-broadsheet print for your perusal.  You can download and read it at this link.

They are running it to shed light on President Trump's Russia overtures and show that "The Hammer's" thoughts and, contrary to what P-HPCLDRSFC* think and FLOTSAM** writes, that his actions on the Russia Question are not out of line with seeking peace.

Where many will disagree with Andrei Sakharov is that Andrei was a believer, calling for the application of "pure ideals" without the "ruling classes" dogmatism. At the time, as those who know history can attest, the United Soviet Socialist Republic, or U.S.S.R, was hiding from the world — and its own citizens — all the warts of its application of Communist ideology. Which is why around the same time as Sakharov, Communism and its sister Socialism got real popular with professors on college campuses. Also, serial killers terrorized U.S.S.R. citizens because to admit they existed within their borders would be to admit that their brand of ideological rule was not working. 

But the world has seen behind the veil of the Sovs marketing campaigns and now know they have worse problems than anyone could imagine. Hell, openness even made it possible to make a movie, Citizen X, about just one situation. 

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