How many political and health terms, the word is of Latin origin and consists of two parts.The prefix denies dis carries meaning, and the root mean sident consent.So, a dissident - is by definition a person disagrees.
The only question is, to which he actively objects.In Soviet times, this proud tribe often considered themselves the people listening to "Voice of America" and protests in the kitchens of small Khrushchev while drinking port 777 under the squash caviar and sardines in tomato sauce.
believed that around for such "intelligent people" all-powerful KGB eavesdropping ears, and to protect yourself from them, turn on the radio or open taps.To add romanticism familiar instills the idea that a dissident - a man desperate, internally free and not afraid of all sorts of satraps.
It has now turned out, they tried in vain.If the information about this sedition and employees reached the first division, it usually comes from someone of those present (sometimes it was he who opened the gate).Moreover, such information in the era of late Brezhnev socialism entailed imprisonment in terrible cellars of the Lubyanka, so scold all ...
This dissident - a citizen who has a clearly defined ideological contradictions with the dominant ideology and did not hide his beliefswhat would it at any cost.This is its difference with cooking conspirators, whose expression is restricted to clearly display FICO discontent in his own pocket.
The fate of many Soviet writers, who began his career by writing the works published in the USSR.Usually they do not plan to write something specifically against the government, simply recounts the history of his life (sometimes fortified camp experience).Dissident writers such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Varlam Shalamov, gained fame for Soviet publications, they simply made it possible for many people to learn the truth about the lives of millions of prisoners.And the conclusions and generalizations arise in the minds of themselves ... This expulsion became a tragedy for them, though there was quite materially secured life in the West, and even sometimes the Nobel Prize.
combat this phenomenon really paid much attention.Among the population carried a huge outreach, whose meaning lies in the statement that the Dissident - either bought at Western money ideological saboteur or a madman.
last assertion was reinforced by the numerous examples of inappropriate behavior of some opponents of the Soviet regime.Vladimir Bukovsky, a lot of time unexposed correctional psychiatry, in a recent interview admitted that many Soviet dissidents were really sick people.Normal citizens are living a normal life, go to work, celebrated Soviet holidays, learning, interest in the situation in the world and domestic situation only within the industrial political information.Self-immolation on Red Square were the lot of the few protesting the invasion of Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan.
Most often happened that a dissident is the one who sincerely believed in the fair of a socialist society, but does not agree there was only a single, as it seemed, the distortions of the communist idea, not knowing that touched on some of the cornerstones of this system.The fate of the naive romanticism became unenviable.
