Yuri Galanskov

Yuri Galanskov (1939-1972) was a Russian poet, historian, human rights activist and dissident.

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1939 - 1972 - Russia - Historian - Human rights - Dissident

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For his political activities, such as founding and editing samizdat almanac Phoenix, he was incarcerated in prisons, camps and forced treatment psychiatric hospitals (see psikhushka).

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Samizdat - Almanac - Psychiatric hospital - Psikhushka

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In 1967, he was sentenced to seven years of labor camp, where he died, allegedly after an unsuccessful surgical operation on ulcer.

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1967 - Labor camp - Ulcer

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