Vladimir Bukovsky had first come to Western attention in 1972, when at greatpersonal risk he collected and smuggled to the West documents on Soviet abuse of psychiatric institutions for the torture of dissidents (including himself). He was released and sent into exile in December of 1976. Besides hearing his thoughtful and shrewd analysis on this show, we get to meet a genuine hero of our times. VB: "Well, I remember in the Cold War, I was a member of the Young Pioneer organization, the Communist organization for children, and they forced us to denounce each other for bad behavior, publicly. And it was disgusting. And that was my first, maybe, impulse to reject- I refused to be a member of this organization. It was long ago, really." ... "It's very convenient for them: when they declare somebody as insane, it denigrates not only him personally, but the views he expressed."