Andrej Sakharov

On 14th December 1989 death of Andrej Sacharov, great Russian scientist and dissident, promoter of famous human rights struggles together with his wife Elena Bonner. His views are described in the essay Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom. In 1970 he founded the Committee for civil rights and in 1975 he is awarded the Peace Nobel prize. He takes a stance against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and he is exiled in Gor’kij. Come back to Moscow upon Gorbatchev's will, in 1989 he is elected opposition leader in the Congress of the People's Deputies.

He long worked for the project of a new Constitutional Chart. A few days before his death and thanks to his commitment article 6 of the Constitution assigning the Soviet Communist Party the leading role in the Country was abolished, which marked the end of Communism.
On the day of his funerals the streets of Moscow get crowded with a lot of silent and moved people.