A very interesting story about Stanislav Kurilov and his dream as told by @[100001248794401:2048:Irina Shikhman]. How to escape from the USSR? She really excels at creating 20-minute informative videos.
Stories involving unusual defectors are always fascinating. There was also Petr Patrushev. It was somewhat easier for him than for Stanislav, but ultimately both made it, though they each spent some time in prisons in their destination countries. I also recalled Georgiy Gamov, who, according to Landau, was the best theoretical physicist of the Soviet school. There was a docuseries on the history of the hydrogen bomb that discussed him. He too tried everything to escape from the USSR: attempting to ski to Finland or to paddle from Crimea to Turkey in a kayak, but he never succeeded until by chance he was carelessly allowed on a business trip, and then he fled to the USA, where he then helped the Americans build the hydrogen bomb. The USSR was very upset about this and, in retaliation, did not allow Petr Kapitza to return to Cambridge, where he had been living and working. There was also the story of Yuri Vetokhin. Yuri, too, tried to escape from Koktebel by boat, but alas, was caught and spent nine years in a psychiatric hospital.
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