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Radio 4,29 Nov 2016,11 mins

The Imprisonment of Irina Ratushinskaya

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In October 1986 the dissident poet, Irina Ratushinskaya, was released from a Soviet prison camp on the eve of a US-Soviet nuclear summit. She has been speaking to Louise Hidalgo about her imprisonment, her poetry, and the day she was set free.

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