1. Viktor Isaakovich Fainberg was a Russian philologist, prominent figure of the dissident movement in the Soviet Union, participant of the 1968 Red Square demonstration, and the director of the Campaign Against Psychiatric Abuse.
13 Facts About Viktor Fainberg
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Viktor Fainberg was born to the married couple of Isaac Fainberg and Sarah Dashevskaya.
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Viktor Fainberg was one of the seven persons who participated in the 1968 Red Square demonstration against the Soviet-led military invasion of Czechoslovakia.
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Viktor Fainberg is occupied with gymnastics, rubdown, reading books, and studying literature in English.
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At the hospital, Viktor Fainberg went on hunger strike in protest, was subjected to forced feeding and was treated with chlorpromazine despite his hyperthyroidism that was somatic contraindication to chlorpromazine therapy.
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Marina Voikhanskaya, a psychiatrist at the hospital, assisted Viktor Fainberg by passing information about him to dissidents outside.
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Viktor Fainberg was demoted for this activity which helped Fainberg be released.
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In 1974, Viktor Fainberg emigrated from the Soviet Union to Israel, and Marina Voikhanskaya emigrated to the UK in 1975.
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In emigration, Viktor Fainberg initiated the formation of "Campaign Against Psychiatric Abuses" to fight punitive psychiatry in the USSR.
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On 27 October 2014, along with other three dissenters from summer of 1968, Viktor Fainberg was decorated by Slovak President Andrej Kiska for his show of solidarity to Czechoslovakia.
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Viktor Fainberg received the Medal of the President of the Slovak republic along with Vladimir Dremlyuga and Pavel Litvinov.
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Viktor Fainberg has a daughter, Sarah, who is a research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv.
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The Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes videotaped Viktor Fainberg's spoken autobiography in Russian:.