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Irreversible Fate
- Larysa Bogoraz Sergiej Niekipielow
/ Russia /1998 / 39 min
On the April 6,
2004, Larisa Bogoraz, a legendary figure of the human rights
movement in the USSR and Russia, died in Moscow. She gave
the interview, which became the basis for this film, in 1998
and it concerns only the period from her childhood in Kharkov
to the famous 1968 demonstration by Soviet dissidents on Moscow's
Red Square, directed against the invasion in Czechoslovakia.
For taking part, Bogoraz was deported to Siberia for four
years of forced labour. After coming back to Moscow, she continued
her work in the human rights movement, editing the "Chronicle
of Current Events" and acting in the defence of political
prisoners, especially after the arrest of her second husband,
Anatoli Marchenko. She remained an activist in the movement
even after the collapse of the USSR, heading the Moscow Helsinki
Group.
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