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Andrey Sakharov.


What do we all think of this late Russian/Soviet nuclear physicist, political dissident and Human Rights Activist, who died at the age of 68 in 1989 arguably of a heart attack?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Sakharov

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I take it few of us in here have heard of him, right?

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Allegedly.

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Well, he clearly did die of a heart attack. Just check out that picture, he looks 80!

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He was 68 years old when he died.

And, by that time at least, his funeral had one of the largest crowd gatherings in modern history and was surpassed almost 6 years in March 1995 when Vladislav Listyev was murdered (I remember it very well and I was 8 years old at the time) .

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His surname almost means "Sugar-like" ("sakhar" is sugar in Russian).

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