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Andrei Sakharov

Soviet physicist and dissident, 1921 to 1989

Helped build the Soviet hydrogen bomb, then became the country’s best-known dissident, campaigning for human rights and arms control and winning the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize.

Andrei Sakharov sits in the right-libertarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: slightly free market and strongly libertarian. The clearest positions are strongly libertarian on liberty and authority, strongly peace-first on war and peace and leaning globalist on nation.

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Where Andrei Sakharov sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomySlightly free market
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authorityStrongly libertarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureLeaning progressive
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationLeaning globalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentLeaning nature-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyLeaning tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceStrongly peace-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsLeaning institutional
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionSlightly secular
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismLeaning non-interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

People most like Andrei Sakharov

Kim Dae-jung President of South Korea, 1998 to 200398%Tim Berners-Lee British inventor of the World Wide Web98%Malala Yousafzai Pakistani education activist and Nobel laureate98%Immanuel Kant German philosopher, 1724 to 180498%John Stuart Mill English philosopher and MP, 1806 to 187398%Shirin Ebadi Iranian lawyer and Nobel laureate98%J. Robert Oppenheimer American physicist, 1904 to 196797%Mikhail Gorbachev Soviet leader, 1985 to 199197%

People furthest from Andrei Sakharov

Benito Mussolini Prime Minister of Italy, 1922 to 19434%Adolf Hitler Chancellor and Führer of Germany, 1933 to 19454%Vladimir Putin President of Russia, 2000 to present (with a term as prime minister)5%Ruhollah Khomeini Supreme Leader of Iran, 1979 to 19895%

Political views closest to Andrei Sakharov

GeorgismTaxes land and natural resources instead of labor, arguing that the value of land…97%Civil libertarianismPuts rights such as free speech, privacy and due process above almost every other goal,…97%Classical liberalismIndividual rights, limited government, free markets and the rule of law.95%Liberal feminismPursues gender equality through law, education and equal access to jobs and politics…95%

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