ry. We were warned not to go ahead. Mr. Gorbachev had become popular in the United States—admired not least for having released the Nobel physicist Andrei Sakharov from exile and some "Prisoners of Zion," myself included, from imprisonment. Mounting a huge demonstration against him would surely be deemed in po

not Jews, as in the case of leaders of the EFTA_R1_00225783 EFTA01840727 dissident movement such as writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn and physicist Andrei Sakharov, the KGB spread rumors that they were. Or they said Sakharov, a naive and innocent academician, was under the spell of his devious Jewish wife Yel

ical party. It had been set up by the iconic Soviet-era refusenik Natan Sharansky — or, as he was then known, Anatoly Sharansky. He’d been an ally of Andrei Sakharov, an outspoken human rights advocate and, until he was finally released and allowed to leave in 1986, a political prisoner in the gulag. Though Natan’

ical party. It had been set up by the iconic Soviet-era refusenik Natan Sharansky - or, as he was then known, Anatoly Sharansky. He'd been an ally of Andrei Sakharov, an outspoken human rights advocate and, until he was finally released and allowed to leave in 1986, a political prisoner in the gulag. Though Natan'

HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017231 4.2.12 WC: 191694 political ends of terrorism. The board has also proved that Redgrave has turned down roles such as that of Andrei Sakharov’s wife in an HBO production because she believed the film might be seen as “anti-Communist propaganda”. Redgrave’s supporters threw a fundraiser for