Mikhas Kukabaka

Michaš Kukabaka (also known as Mikhail Kukobaka; born 1936) is a Soviet Belarusian dissident described as "the last Soviet political prisoner in the USSR".

Early years Kukabaka was born in Babrujsk, Soviet Belarus.

Dissident activities In 1968, he publicly declared his disagreement with the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet and Warsaw Pact troops and handed over his article condemning the invasion to the Deputy Consul General of Czechoslovakia asking him to forward it to the West.

Academician Andrei Sakharov did a lot to inform the public and assess the situation of Kukabaka, with other Soviet dissidents Viktor Nekipelov, Grigory Podyapolsky and Maria Petrenko also expressing their support.

Release and life after it In 1988 Kukabaka was the last prisoner convicted under the article "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda". He was ultimately pardoned and released on 2 December of that year.