Andrei Sakharov Museum Virtual Tour

Photo by Michael Oschepkov ( Russia ), 2005
Text by Semen Zakharov

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11. Weapons of anti-soviet struggle warriors - dissidents - like Alexander Daniel: typing machine, photo camera. Could they with such simple things overthrow the regime?

Dissident ideological tools

12. Academic Sakharov portrait in mature age. Childish face of the Soviet hydrogen bomb creator.
Elite of the Russian intellectual elite. Most of his professional life he spent in a closed city, personally guarded, having income unthinkable for an average soviet.
What did he know about democracy, private property, and the life of common people?
What this physicist grown on communist propaganda and information restrictions knew about history, economics, politics?
"Peace, progress, and human rights are the three goals, inseparably connected. One can not reach one of them neglecting others" - wrote Andrei Sakharov in his Nobel lecture.
There are pictures of Chechnja horrors surrounding the poster.

Andrei Sakharov portrait

Why? Why put the unpopular Chechen topic inside Sakharov's museum? What do they have in common, a war which most russians consider as a just war against Chechen terrorists, bandits, and thieves and the image of Andrei Sakharov - a poor fighter for the freedom of Russian people?

Is image of the Russian hero is used once again in the shameless political games?
What Sakharov did personally to be compromised in the eyes of an average russian so that his name was remembered inside the wrong context?
In his own museum?

 

13. War in Chechnia. A sniper stands in front of a ditch full of the dead. The man holds the russian cross in his hand. But he wears long hair and a beard which is impossible in russian army. Who is he?
This sign reads "Enough!"

Chechnja and a chechen.

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inside the Sakharov museum.  A view up.

15. You can sign a declaration of November 2002 proclaiming immediate cease of fire and starting negotiations. With Zakaev?

Declaration chechnia conference

16. Books about Chechnia and Sakharov's articles together on a special table - free.

Books about chechnia

17. A war-time window. This was a method of glass protection during nazis bomber raids.

A war window

18. The supporting basis of Andrei Sakharov museum. The sign reads: "Thank you for your dollars and rubles!"

basis of Sakharov museum

19. The building and Financial funds were provided by:
Moscow government,
American Agency of International Development,
National Fond of Development of Democracy (USA),
McArthur Fund (USA),
Soros Fund (USA),
Allan Win ( Great Britain ),
Andrei Sakharov and Elena Bonner (Russia).

Patrons of Andrei Sakharov museum

20. At the Andrei Sakharov library.

Andrei Sakharov museum libary

 
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