People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Robert Havemann Robert Havemann East German chemist who survived a Nazi death sentence and later, expelled from the SED, became a dissident under house arrest
- Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov Андрей Дмитриевич Сахаров He built the hydrogen bomb, then turned on the system
- Fang Lizhi 方励之 “China’s Sakharov”, the astrophysicist known for the 1986 student protests and his 1989 refuge in the US embassy