Emigration or a camp? Loyalty or weakness? Devotion or betrayal? A decent choice in the USSR was not much: first freedom, then prison.”
This is an audiobook of memoirs about dissenting Moscow of the 1970s–1980s.
Its author is Alexander Podrabinek, an active participant in the human rights movement.$CUT$
In 1978, he was arrested on charges of slandering the Soviet system and was exiled for 5 years to North-Eastern Siberia.
In 1979, his book “Punitive Medicine” was published in the USA.
In 1980, he was arrested again and sentenced to 3.5 years in camps.