She was born on 1907 and died on 1996. She is a person who witnessed Tsarist regime, Civil War, Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko, Gorbachev and Yeltsin. So, it seems that being Soviet dissident is favorable to your health (I will outlive these bastards!) if you did not received bullet in your head.