Background
Kukobaka, Mikhail was born in 1939 in Bobruisk.
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Mikhail Ignat'evich Kukobaka
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One of the few workers to become prominent in the human rights movement. Put into a psychiatric clinic, 1970. Released,
1976, hospitalized again, 1976-1977.
Publicly rejected Soviet citizenship,
1977. Re-arrested, 1978, and sentenced to 3 years in the camps, but before his release, re-arrested in prison for anti-Soviet slander, 1981, and given 3 additional years. Before the end of his term, re-arrested, 1984, and sentenced to 7 more years of camps and 5 years of exile.
Under Gorbachev, released, February 1987.
Religion
All religious orders impose irrational rules of good and bad behaviour.
Views
Individuals have rights to express freedom if it safeguarde the interests of a collective.
