Anatoly Marchenko

Anatoli Marchenko Tichonowitsch (Russian Анатолий Тихонович Марченко; born January 23, 1938 in Barabinsk; † December 8, 1986 in Tschistopol ) was a Soviet political activist, author and human rights activist. Because of his criticism of the Soviet government, he was imprisoned several times.

Biography

Marchenko was born the son of a railway worker in place Barabinsk in Siberia. After eight years, he left school and was a member of the Komsomol. Marchenko working as oil workers and was then imprisoned for the first time. After he has written about the cruel conditions in the labor camp in the book " My statements", he was sent to prison again from 1960 to 1966. He became a political dissident. Among other things, he warned the Czechoslovaks from the Soviets, which again earned him a penalty. The KGB but not offered him to emigrate to Israel, but he refused because, although his wife was Jewish, he. Because of its Verbannungsberichtes " From Tarusa after Tschunski " he was sent in 1981 in the prison UE148 / 2 in Tschistopol, where he died of a brain hemorrhage. Overall, he was convicted six times and spent 19 years in prison.

Marchenko was the second husband of Larissa Bogoras.

Honors

Marchenko was in 1988 awarded the Sakharov Prize.