Sakharov
Sakharov refers to Andrei Sakharov (1921–1989), a Soviet nuclear physicist who helped develop the hydrogen bomb before becoming a prominent human rights activist and dissident.
His advocacy for civil liberties and nuclear disarmament earned him the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize.
The Sakharov Prize, awarded by the European Parliament for freedom of thought, bears his name: Three Sakharov Prize laureates addressed the conference.
Thermonuclear fusion weapon
- thermonuclearInvolving nuclear fusion heat
- fusionJoining into unity
- SovietOf the USSR
- nuclear weaponsExplosive devices using fission
atomic · fission · radiation · physicist · scientist · classified · laboratory · theoretical
Honor for advancing harmony
- human rightsInalienable personal freedoms
- activismDirect effort for reform
- democracyRule by the people
- civil libertiesRights limiting government power
freedom · dignity · conscience · advocacy · political prisoners · amnesty · reform · glasnost
Deliberate noncomplier
- samizdatClandestine dissident publishing
- BrezhnevSoviet general secretary
- exileBanishment from homeland
- internal exileBanishment without deportation
persecution · KGB · surveillance · censorship · banned · silenced · courage · conscience
EU's elected legislative branch
- laureatesCelebrated prize recipients
- MandelaSouth African liberation figure
- freedom of thoughtRight to personal beliefs
- recognitionPerceiving something as known
ceremony · Strasbourg · honoree · dissidents · activists · courage · conscience · political prisoners
hydrogen bomb
Thermonuclear fusion weapon
- thermonuclearInvolving nuclear fusion heat
- fusionJoining into unity
- SovietOf the USSR
nuclear weapons · atomic · fission · radiation · physicist · scientist · classified · laboratory · theoretical · quantum
Nobel Peace Prize
Honor for advancing harmony
- human rightsInalienable personal freedoms
- activismDirect effort for reform
- democracyRule by the people
civil liberties · freedom · dignity · conscience · advocacy · political prisoners · amnesty · reform · glasnost · perestroika
refusenik
Deliberate noncomplier
- samizdatClandestine dissident publishing
- BrezhnevSoviet general secretary
- exileBanishment from homeland
internal exile · persecution · KGB · surveillance · censorship · banned · silenced · courage · conscience · Soviet regime
European Parliament
EU's elected legislative branch
- laureatesCelebrated prize recipients
- MandelaSouth African liberation figure
- freedom of thoughtRight to personal beliefs
recognition · ceremony · Strasbourg · honoree · dissidents · activists · courage · conscience · political prisoners · journalism
- Cold War Dissentdissidents, samizdat, refuseniks, defectors, Radio Free Europe
- Cold War USSRKhrushchev, Brezhnev, Politburo, KGB, Kremlin
- dissidentsdissident, dissidents, dissenter, rebel, rebels
- Russian ScienceMendeleev, Pavlov, periodic table, Gagarin, Markov
- Slavic ThoughtRussian soul, Frank, Bakhtin, Pan-Slavism, Russian Orthodoxy
- Cold WarBerlin Wall, Iron Curtain, arms race, Warsaw Pact, Cuban Missile Crisis
SakharovBrezhnev
Soviet general secretary
Stalin · KGB · Molotov · apparatchik · party loyalist