Moscow (AFP) – Communist-era Ukrainian dissident Leonid Plyushch, who was detained for almost three years in a psychiatric ward by the Soviet authorities, died Thursday aged 76 close to Paris, a friend told AFP.”Leonid died on Thursday morning,” said Arina Ginzburg, another Soviet dissident.”He was a remarkable man who went through terrible trials.”Mathematician Plyushch was detained in 1972 in Kiev for “anti-Soviet activity”, with the authorities attacking him for his membership of the first organised dissident group in the USSR, the Initiative Group for the Defence of Human Rights.The following year he was forcibly committed to a psychiatric hospital in …read more
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