Victor Sokolov
Journalist, Deceased Person
1947 – 2006
Who was Victor Sokolov?
The Very Reverend Archpriest Victor Sokolov was a Russian-American former dissident Soviet journalist and an Eastern Orthodox priest.
He wrote articles critical of the Soviet government that were clandestinely distributed throughout the Soviet Union and abroad.
After moving to the United States in 1975, he was stripped of his Soviet citizenship by an ukase of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet on September 7, 1976, for "activities discrediting the rank of a Soviet citizen", becoming only the fifth person around that time to be so penalized, among them Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1984.
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- Born
- Feb 21, 1947
Soviet Union - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- Mar 12, 2006
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on July 23, 2013
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