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Ivan Dziuba
Ukrainian literary critic, social activist, Russian philologist and Soviet dissident (b. 1931)
Alexander Shliapnikov
Russian politician and syndicalist (1885-1937)
Alexander Esenin-Volpin
Russian-American mathematician (1924-2016)
Zianon Paźniak
Belarusian politician
Semen Hluzman
Ukrainian psychiatrist (1946–2026)
Soviet dissidents
citizens of the Soviet Union who disagreed with the USSR's leaders
Ayşe Seitmuratova
Crimean Tatar civil rights activist
Vasyl Symonenko
Ukrainian poet (1935–1963)
Petro Hryhorenko
Ukrainian soviet dissident, general (1907–1987)
Igor Talkov
Russian singer (1956–1991)
Eliyahu Rips
Israeli-Latvian mathematician (1948-2024)
Alexander Men
Russian theologian (1935–1990)
Mykola Rudenko
Ukrainian dissident (1920–2004)
August Sabbe
Estonian anti-communist (1909-1978)
Boris Kagarlitsky
Soviet dissident
Stepan Petrichenko
Russian revolutionary and leader of the Krondstadt rebellion (1892-1947)
Gleb Pavlovsky
Russian political scientist (1951–2023)
Yuliy Kim
Russian poet, bard and composer (born 1936)
Vasyl Makukh
Ukrainian nationalist activist (1927-1968)
Knuts Skujenieks
Latvian writer (1936-2022)
Tunne Kelam
Estonian politician (born 1936)
Alexander Ginzburg
Russian journalist, poet, human rights activist and dissident (1936-2002)
Igor Guberman
Israeli writer
Anatoly Kuznetsov
Soviet writer (1929-1979)
Georgi Vladimov
Soviet writer (1931-2003)
Yekaterina Peshkova
Soviet activist (1876-1965)
Iryna Kalynets
poet, writer, and Ukrainian politician (1940-2012)
Valery Sablin
Soviet naval captain (1939–1976)
Chabua Amirejibi
Georgian novelist and Soviet-era dissident (1921-2013)
Larisa Bogoraz
Soviet dissident (1929–2004)
Adolfas Ramanauskas
Lithuanian general (1918–1957)
Valeriy Marchenko
Soviet dissident (1947–1984)
Yuri Galanskov
Soviet writer and dissident (1939–1972)
Ambrosius of Georgia
Catholicos Patriarch of All Georgia (1861-1927)
Lev Ponomaryov
Russian politician
Muhammad Salih
Uzbekistani writer
Anatoly Pristavkin
Russian writer (1931-2008)
Gleb Yakunin
Soviet dissident (1934-2014)
Ihor Kalynets
Ukrainian poet and Soviet dissident (1939–2025)
Arseny Roginsky
Russian historian, Soviet dissident and Memorial founder (1946-2017)
Stepan Khmara
politician (1937–2024)
Moysey Fishbein
Ukrainian writer (1946-2020)
Nijolė Sadūnaitė
Lithuanian nun and dissident
Efraim Sevela
Russian writer (1928–2010)
Alexandr Podrabinek
Russian journalist
Nadiya Svitlychna
Ukrainian dissident (1936–2006)
Irina Ratushinskaya
Russian writer (1954–2017)
Lagle Parek
Estonian politician and freedom fighter (born 1941)
Anton Bakov
Russian politician
Alexander Piatigorsky
Russian philosopher (1929–2009)
Michael Voslenski
Soviet dissident (1920-1997)
Stefaniia Shabatura
Ukrainian textile artist and human rights activist (1938–2014)
Mikhail Agursky
Jewish sovietologist, cybernetic, and historian (1933-1991)
Anna Barkova
Soviet writer (1901–1976)
Vadim Delaunay
Russian poet and dissident (1947–1983)
Yurii Shukhevych
Ukrainian activist (1933–2022)
Pyotr Yakir
Soviet historian (1923–1982)
Grigory Pomerants
Russian philosopher, cultural theorist, and Soviet dissident (1918–2013)
Dina Kaminskaya
Soviet lawyer and activist (1919–2006)
Viktor Krivulin
Russian poet (1944–2001)