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Vladimir Voinovich
Vladimir Nikolayevich Voinovich was a Russian writer and former Soviet dissident, and the "first genuine comic writer" produced by the Soviet system. Among his most well-known works are the satirical epic The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin and the dystopian Moscow 2042. He was forced into exile and stripped of his citizenship by Soviet authorities in 1980 but later rehab…
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culture · Russian writer and Soviet dissident (1932–2018) · poet · writer · science fiction writer · painter · playwright · lyricist · dissident · prose writer · activist · journalist · also Vladimir Voinovich, Vladimir Nikolajevitš Voinovitš, Vladimir Voynovich, Vladimir Nikolayevich Voinovich, Vladimir Nikolaevič Vojnovič, Voinovich
Born 26 September 1932 · Died 27 July 2018 · Q454630
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2026· 1 entry
2018· 7 entries
WRAL: Vladimir Voinovich, Dissident Russian Writer, Dies at 85
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Died 2018-07-27.
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“Jeśli przyjmiemy, że lud stanowi większość, to muszę ci powiedzieć, iż ta większość jest głupsza od pojedynczego człowieka. O wiele trudniej porwać idiotyczną ideą jednego człowieka niż cały lud.”
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“Ja zbudowałem komunizm i ja go pogrzebałem. Policz sobie, ilu ludzi walczyło z tą doktryną. Tworzyli kółka, partie, rozrzucali ulotki, ginęli w więzieniach i obozach. I co osiągnęli? (…) A nikt nie zrozumiał prostej rzeczy: żeby zniszczyć komunizm, trzeba go zbudować.”
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“Cała istniejąca rzeczywistość jest owocem czyjegoś wymysłu. Rodzi się z niczego, a następnie wciela się w życie i przejawia dążenie do samorozwoju.”
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Vladimir Voinovich died on the night of 27 July 2018 of a heart attack.
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“O, Boże, dlaczego tak jest? Dlaczego, ilekroć śni mi się ojczyzna, dręczą mnie jakieś koszmary, co skłania mnie do ucieczki, i budzę się zlany potem?”
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2017· 1 entry
Voinovich also voiced criticism of President Putin, saying that Putin had turned the country in a more conservative direction at the expense of politics "oriented toward the future
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2016· 1 entry
Awarded Lev Kopelev Prize (2016).
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2004· 1 entry
Voinovich married Svetlana Yakovlevna Kolesnichenko (née Lianozova), an entrepreneur, also a widow of the Russian journalist Tomas Kolesnichenko
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2002· 2 entries
Awarded Andrei Sakharov Prize For Writer's Civic Courage (2002).
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Published a controversial book of memoirs A Portrait Against the Background of a Myth, highly critical of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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2001· 1 entry
Voinovich signed an open letter expressing support to the NTV channel, and in 2003 a letter against the Second Chechen War
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2000· 1 entry
Awarded State Prize of the Russian Federation (2000).
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1999· 1 entry
Awarded Dr. Friedrich Joseph Haass-Preis (1999).
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Triumph (1996).
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1990· 1 entry
And he subsequently moved back to Russia
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1987· 1 entry
Published the second of his arguably most well-known works, Moscow 2042
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1986· 1 entry
Wrote a dystopian novel, Moscow 2042 (published in 1987)
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1980· 1 entry
But later rehabilitated and moved back to Moscow in 1990
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1975· 1 entry
An attempt to poison him was made by the KGB
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1974· 1 entry
The authorities began a systematic harassment of Voinovich due to his writing and his political attitude
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1973· 1 entry
They had one daughter Olga Voinovich (born 1973), a German writer.
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1969· 1 entry
Published the first part of The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, a satirical novel about a Russian soldier during World War II
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1936· 1 entry
Voinovich's father was arrested on the allegation of anti-Soviet agitation and spent five years in labor camps
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1932· 1 entry
Born 1932-09-26.
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