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I can still vividly recall the sessions of the First Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR in May–June 1989. Whenever Andrei Sakharov stepped up to the podium, the aggressively compliant majority of the Communist nomenklatura would begin stomping their feet, whistling, shouting—doing everything possible to prevent the former (or perhaps not entirely former) dissident from speaking. I remember feeling ashamed of the arrogance displayed by that majority. Yet Sakharov continued speaking, despite being neither a gifted orator nor, even less so, a charismatic tribune of…






















































