Victor Sokolov, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetVictor Sokolov
Soviet dissident and journalist
Date of Birth: 21-Feb-1947
Date of Death: 12-Mar-2006
Profession: journalist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Victor Sokolov
- The Very Reverend Archpriest Victor Sokolov (Russian: ?????? ???????????? ???????) (February 21, 1947 – March 12, 2006) 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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