Они выбирали свободу = They chose freedom

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Four-part TV documentary on the history of political dissent in the USSR from the 1950s to the 1990s. The documentary tells the story of the Soviet dissident movement from its emergence in the late...

Four-part TV documentary on the history of political dissent in the USSR from the 1950s to the 1990s. The documentary tells the story of the Soviet dissident movement from its emergence in the late 1950s with the weekly public readings of banned poetry on Mayakovsky Square in Moscow. The development of samizdat, opposition demonstrations held in Moscow in 1965 and 1968, and the harsh repressions unleashed by Soviet authorities against dissenters (including forced psychiatric "treatment", prison camps and deportations), are all part of the film's narrative.

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