Posted on 11/17/2018 3:07:30 PM PST by OddLane
Zhores A. Medvedev, the Soviet biologist, writer and dissident who was declared insane, confined to a mental institution and stripped of his citizenship in the 1970s after attacking a Stalinist pseudoscience, died on Thursday at his home in London, where he had lived for decades. He had turned 93 the day before.
Dr. Medvedev’s twin brother, the historian Roy Medvedev, told the Russian news media that the cause was a heart attack. He said his family had celebrated Dr. Medvedev’s birthday on Wednesday.
“He had never complained about his heart,” he told RBC, a Russian news agency. “Three ambulances came, but they weren’t able to save him.”
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His brother Roy lives in Russia and has always been a reform Communist.
RIP.
As a dissident, Roy Medvedev was urging a ‘return to Leninism’. That is why he was a dissident that the party was not real concerned with.
He was one of the founders of the Communist Party Of The Russian Federation.
Russia never had a separate Communist Party until 1990.
Note that Climate Change True Believers propose the Zhores Medvedev treatment for Climate Heretics.
Exactly.
Solzhenitsyn has some great observations about his internment in The Gulag Archipelago-I just finished reading Katorga this year-and other prisoners that remained committed Marxist-Leninists, even as their government put them into a meat grinder.
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