A retired doctor against the political machine: fighting for freedom in rural Russia

Alexander Pravdin is 73 years old. He lives in a small village
near St. Petersburg. He used to work as a doctor in a psychiatric
hospital, then he became an entrepreneur and settled in the
village. He began to speak out against the arbitrariness of the
Russian authorities and draw posters about it. Of course, the
authorities did not like it and they took away Alexander's
business. But he does not give up.


We asked Alexander why he believes that Russia has stolen the
future from the whole world, how his generation treats the war
and the USSR and whether Russia will be free.


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Sources: 
About Alexander
Zeroing the Constitution of Russia
About Pravdin's detention
Mikhail Gorbachev
The collapse of the USSR
Back in USSR