Background
Osipov, Vladimir was born in 1939 in Moscow.
editor journalist Human Rights Campaigner
Osipov, Vladimir was born in 1939 in Moscow.
Studied at Moscow University, expelled 1959. Studied at Moscow University, expelled 1959.
Became involved in the human rights movement. Edited the samizdat magazine Bumerang, 1960. Co-edited the samizdat magazine Feniks, 1961.
Arrested, 1961, sentenced to 7 years in the Gulag camps.
After his release, started the Russian nationalist samizdat magazines Veche and Zemlia. Re-arrested, 1974. Sentenced to 8 years in the camps. The best-known voice of the Russian opposition to communism among Soviet dissidents during the Brezhnev-Andropov years.
Religion is bad because it makes people base the way they run their lives on a falsehood.
Strong communist party can create a new and better society with neither rich nor poor.