Andrei Shakharov

Andrei Sakharov

Throughout history, societies have practiced the erroneous concept that by imprisoning or destroying a person, they can also destroy the ideas that this person believes in and espoused. Many people have stood up against governments or societies because they feel that the government was committing a crime against its citizens. When one person stands up to a large and powerful government, the government tries to destroy his beliefs by destroying him. Most times his beliefs live on even if he is murdered by the government. His Beliefs live on by other people seeing what the government is doing and then standing up for what they feel is right. Andrei Sakharov is one of these people who saw a government doing something unjust and decided to stand up for what was right. He saw that what he had built for the Soviet Union, the Hydrogen bomb, was dangerous and he also felt it was wrong the way they were testing the bomb. He was then exiled for standing up for what h...