Ruth Bonner Born: Soviet Activist Survives Stalin's Purge
Ruth Bonner was a committed Soviet Communist who worked as a party organizer in the 1920s and 1930s, only to be arrested during Stalin's Great Purge and sentenced to 8 years in a labor camp. Her daughter Elena Bonner went on to marry physicist Andrei Sakharov and became a prominent Soviet dissident.
August 18, 1900
126 years ago
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