Ruth Bonner
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Ruf Grigorievna Bonner (Russian: Руфь Григорьевна Боннер; 1900[1] — 25 December 1987),[2] also known as Ruth Bonner, was a Soviet Communist activist and who spent eight years in a labor camp during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge. She was the mother of the human rights activist Yelena Bonner and the mother-in-law of physicist and dissident Andrei Sakharov.