Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.
Article N. 30
Unfortunately, he obtained no results at all.
In the '70 Sakharov threw himself headlong into political activism. He wrote letters in support of political prisoners, followed political trials in the courts, urged the government to bring back the Crimean Tatars deported in '44, to authorize the Russian Germans from the Volga region to go to Germany, to acknowledge the guilt of the USSR in the Katyn massacre.
For his activities in the promotion of civil liberties he was considered a dissident and suffered persecution because considered by the regime as a danger to the stability of the Soviet Union, until he was arrested in 1980 and confined to Gorky. In 1975 he received the Nobel Peace Prize, but could not withdraw it.