Jüri Kukk was an Estonia

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n professor

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 of chemistry

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, a Soviet dissident, who died in a Soviet

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 labor camp

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 after several months of hunger strike

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 and psychiatric treatments

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He resigned from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

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 in 1978 and was subsequently fired from the post of the Associate Professor of chemistry at Tartu University. He was also refused permission to emigrate

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Jüri Kukk was arrested in February 1980 "for distribution of anti-Soviet Propaganda

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