Soviet dissident Feinberg dies after walking on Red Square with a poster “For your freedom and ours”

Soviet dissident Viktor Fainberg died on January 2 at the age of 92, his children reported the death. The funeral will take place in Israel on January 5. Viktor Fainberg participated in the “demonstration of the seven”, or action on August 25, 1968 against the entry of Soviet troops into Czechoslovakia. Then the activists unfurled a banner on Red Square with the words “For your and our freedom.”

“It is with deep sorrow that the Fainberg family informs you of the death of Viktor Fainberg on January 2 at the age of 92. The funeral will take place in Israel at the Givat Brener cemetery on Thursday, January 5 at 15:00, ”says a message on Viktor Fainberg’s Facebook page (owned by Meta, recognized as extremist and banned in Russia).

Viktor Fainberg studied philology at Leningrad University. He joined the dissident movement in 1968. After the action in August 1968, he, like other demonstrators, was detained by the KGB. After that, he was sent for compulsory treatment to the Leningrad psychiatric hospital, where he was from 1969 to 1973. There he went on a hunger strike.

After the Western press became aware of the cruel detention of Viktor Fainberg in a psychiatric hospital, the writer was able to be released. In 1974 he emigrated to France. In exile, he initiated the creation of “SARA” – Campaign Against Psychiatric Abuses for Political Purposes to combat punitive psychiatry in the USSR.

Anastasia Larina