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October 28, 2019 Vladimir Boukovski, a writer, anti-communist activist and former Soviet dissident known for denouncing the psychiatric detention of political prisoners in the then USSR prison in the 1970s, died at a 76-year-old hospital in Cambridge. been a victim in the first person. The Bukovsky Center announced it, recalling how "Vladimir Konstantinovitch" had been indicated by the New York Times as "an almost legendary hero in the dissent movement".Held several times since 1967 for his provisions against the Soviet regime, he was at the center in 1976 of a resounding exchange between the USSR and Pinochet's Chile, which obtained its release and expulsion in Switzerland in exchange for that of the Chilean communist leader Luis Corvalan.
Right from the start Bukovski moved to Great Britain, where he wrote successful books and animated anti-Soviet movements. He returned briefly to Russia after the end of communism, trying to promote a sort of Nuremberg trial on the crimes of the old regime and later joined the front of the most radical liberal opposition to Vladimir Putin. He tried to run for the 2008 Russian presidential election, but was not admitted as he was not resident in the country.
In 2014 he was arrested by the British police and accused of pedophilia by the justice of the Kingdom: in his computer were found hundreds of pornographic photos and videos with child protagonists and especially children aged 12-13 years collected for 15 years. He did not deny, though he advanced suspicions of traps of the former KGB, and spoke of a collection made for study purposes, but the trial was finally interrupted last year in Cambridge only because of his inability to attend due to health now compromised.