Volume 36, Number 13 · August 17, 1989
A Speech to the People's Congress
By Andrei D. Sakharov, Translated by Edward Kline
In a rush to adjourn on June 9, the Congress of People's Deputies grudgingly voted Andrei Sakharov five minutes to make a closing statement. He had written down his assessment of the Congress's historic first session (May 26–June 9), but the pressure of time forced him to omit or condense several points. Gorbachev warned Sakharov that he was running over his time limit and then cut off the microphone after this memorable exchange:
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