Quote of the day
I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.
Vladimir Bukovsky
Born: December 30, 1942
Died: October 27, 2019 (aged 76)
Bio: Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky was a prominent Russian activist in the Soviet dissident movement of the 1960s and 1970s and spent a total of twelve years in psychiatric prison-hospitals, labor camps and prisons within the Soviet Union.