Anatoly Marchenko - was a Soviet dissident, author, and human rights campaigner [biography]

Born into a family of railway workers, Marchenko started his first job at a very early age in a drilling gang in the oil business. In 1958 he was arrested on trumped up charges, but by the time the judicial error had been recognized, Marchenko had escaped from the forced labour camp in which he had been incarcerated. For the next year he shifted from place to place and then tried to flee the country; but he was caught once again and sentenced to six years hard labour for treason. On his release, in 1966, he was no longer a rebellious worker struggling against an unfair world, but a conscientious dissident and informed human rights activist, who decided to publish his own testimony. His first book – circulated in the samizdat – was, in fact, entitled: My Testimony (1967); as well as rev

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