Dissident

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I decided it is better to scream. This pitiful sound, which sometimes, goodness knows how, reaches into the remotest prison cell, is a concentrated expression of the last vestige of human dignity. It is a man's way of leaving a trace, of telling people how he lived and died. By his screams he asserts his right to live, sends a message to the outside world demanding help and calling for resistance. If nothing else is left, one must scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity.

Nadezhda Mandelstam

Hope Against Hope

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Topic

Soviet Union

Author

Nadezhda Mandelstam

Source

Hope Against Hope

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

Russian

Time

1970 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Mandelstam, Nadezhda. Hope Against Hope. The Chekov Press/Atheneum, 1970, ch. 11.

You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?

Lech Walesa

Quoted in The Daily Telegraph

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Topic

Decline of religion Modern life

Speaker

Lech Walesa

Source

The Daily Telegraph

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1988 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Walesa, Lech. Quoted in Daily Telegraph. 14 Dec. 1988.

The astonishing thing is not that so many of us went to concentration camps or died there, but that some us survived. Caution did not help. Only chance could save you.

Nadezhda Mandelstam

Hope Abandoned

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Topic

The gulag Soviet Union

Author

Nadezhda Mandelstam

Source

Hope Abandoned

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

Russian

Time

1972 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Mandelstam, Nadezhda. Hope Abandoned. Collins & Harvill Press/Atheneum Books, ch. 6.

Science and technology, and the various forms of art, all unite humanity in a single and interconnected system. As science progresses, the worldwide cooperation of scientists and technologists becomes more and more of a special and distinct intellectual community of friendship, in which, in place of antagonism, there is growing up a mutually advantageous sharing of work, a coordination of efforts, a common language for exchange of information, and solidarity, which are in many cases independent of the social and political differences of individual states.

Zhores Medvedev

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Topic

Scientific progress Progress

Author

Zhores Medvedev

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

Russian

Time

1970 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Medvedev, Zhores. Международное сотрудничество ученых и национальные границы [The Medvedev Papers: Fruitful Meetings Between Scientists of the World, and, Secrecy of Correspondence is Guaranteed by Law]. Macmillan/St. Martin's Press, 1971, preface.

We are ready for the dialogue.

Lech Walesa

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Topic

Conflict resolution Political reconciliation Politics

Speaker

Lech Walesa

Medium

Nobel Prize Lecture Speech

Language

Polish

Time

1983 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Wałęsa, Lech. Acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize. 11 Dec. 1983, Norweigen Nobel Institute, Oslo, Norway.