World Sorely Misses Sakharov

[Andrew Grigorenko]

December 22, 2009

 

World Sorely Misses Sakharov

 

By Cathy Young

 

Last week, an important anniversary went by far less noticed than it deserved: the twentieth anniversary of the death of one of the 20th century's greatest sons, the Russian dissident, human rights activist and scientist Andrei Sakharov. The loss was greatest for Russia, where the fledgling democratic opposition was deprived of one of its unquestionable moral leaders just when communism was collapsing. But Sakharov, the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was truly a citizen of the world, and his legacy also has profound relevance to the West.

 

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Andrew P. Grigorenko

President of General Petro Grigorenko Foundation

www.grigorenko.org