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Leonid Ivanovych Plyushch
Леонід Іванович Плющ
Born
(1938-04-26)26 April 1938
Naryn, Kirghiz SSR
Died
4 June 2015(2015-06-04) (aged 77)
Bessèges, France[1]
Nationality
Ukrainian
Citizenship
Soviet Union, France
Alma mater
Odesa University, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Occupation
mathematics
Known for
human rights activism with participation in the Ukrainian Helsinki Group
Movement
dissident movement in the Soviet Union
Spouse
Tatyana Ilinichna Zhitnikova
Awards
Order For Courage Antonovych prize (1987)
Leonid Ivanovych Plyushch (Ukrainian: Леоні́д Іва́нович Плющ, IPA:[ˈplʲuʃtʃ]; 26 April 1938, Naryn, Kirghiz SSR – 4 June 2015, Bessèges, France) was a Ukrainian mathematician and Soviet dissident.
Although he was employed to work on Soviet space missions, he became disillusioned with some aspects of the Soviet Union, and started to protest, by sending letters to multiple entities and signing petitions and declarations. These activities led to his interrogation and, in 1972, eventual arrest and imprisonment by the Soviet authorities, where he was injected with drugs and mistreated. He was put on trial in secret, closed to public scrutiny, by the Soviet authorities. Eventually, in 1976, he was able to leave the Soviet Union, and later settled in France, after which he became involved in trying to promote human rights.
In 1979, with the help of his wife, he wrote a book describing how he and other dissidents were placed in psychiatric facilities. Throughout his later years, he supported anti-totalitarian publications.
^"Lettre ouverte de Tatiana Pliouchtch" [Open letter from Tatiana Pliouchtch]. Blog Mediapart. 16 June 2015. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
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