In 1975, Andrei Sakharov, Soviet dissident and human rights campaigner, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Into his films, as familiar as friends, walk famous names: Leonard Bernstein, Norman Mailer, Andrei Sakharov, Igor Stravinsky.

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Similarly, the upcoming generation of American politicians will not have spent their formative years goggling at Checkpoint Charlie in divided Berlin, or feeling their spirits soar at the courage and triumph of dissidents such as Andrei Sakharov.

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