The BBC notes that Soviet-era dissident and poet Natalya Gorbanevskaya recently died.
Gorbanevskaya was one of eight dissidents arrested for a demonstration in Moscow’s Red Square protesting the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. She was subsequently held in a psychiatric hospital until 1972. In 1975 she was allowed to emigrate to France.
The sad thing is that even with the end of the Cold War, some things change in degree but not kind,
Earlier this year she and others held another protest in Red Square making the 45th anniversary of the invasion.
They were briefly detained by authorities for holding an unauthorised protest.