Viktor Fainberg

Philologist, Person or entity appearing in film

1931 –

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Who is Viktor Fainberg?

Viktor Isaakovich Fainberg is a philologist, prominent figure of the dissident movement in the Soviet Union, participant of the 1968 Red Square demonstration, and fighter against punitive psychiatry.

He was born to the married couple of Isaac Fainberg and Sarah Dashevskaya. In his life as a child, while attending school during an antisemitic campaign of 1948-1952, he was subjected to harassment that, in his own words, he did not reconcile himself to, but entered the fray with an abuser. As the result of these frays, he got a referral to a psychiatrist which subsequently played a negative role when Feinberg was a dissident.

In 1957, in connection with antisemitic insult, he had a fight with a policeman and for this reason was sentenced to 1 year of corrective labor.

In 1968, he graduated from the English unit of the philological department of the Leningrad University where he defended his diploma thesis about writer Salinger with distinction. In the summer of 1968, Fainberg worked as a guide for the Pavlovsk Palace.

Viktor Fainberg was one of the seven persons who demonstrated on Red Square in Moscow in 1968 against the intervention into Czechoslovakia.

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Born
1931
Kharkiv
Also known as
  • Viktor Isaakovich Fainberg
  • Ви́ктор Исаа́кович Фа́йнберг
Parents
Spouses
Children
Nationality
  • Ukraine
  • Russia
  • France
Profession
Education
  • Saint Petersburg State University

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on July 23, 2013

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