Petro Grigorenko

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Petro Grigorenko
Петро Григоренко Petro Hryhorenko
Born	Petro Hryhorovych Hryhorenko 16 October [O.S. 3 October] 1907 Borysivka, Taurida Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	21 February 1987(1987-02-21) (aged 79) New York City, New York, United States
Burial place	St. Andrew Memorial Church in South Bound Brook, New Jersey, United States
Nationality	Ukrainian
Citizenship	Russian Empire (1907–17)  Ukrainian People's Republic (1917–1918)  Soviet Ukraine (1918–22)  Soviet Union (1922–77)  United States (1977–87)
Alma mater	Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute Military Engineering-Technical University Kuybyshev Military Engineering Academy Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia
Occupation(s)	commanding officer, military scientist, cyberneticist
Employer	Frunze Military Academy
Known for	human rights activism with participation in the Moscow Helsinki Group, the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, the Working Commission to Investigate the Use of Psychiatry for Political Purposes, struggle against political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union
Political party	Bolshevik
Movement	dissident movement in the Soviet Union
Spouse	Zinaida Hryhorenko
Children	five sons: Anatoliy, Andrew, Georgi, Oleh, Viktor
Military career
Allegiance	Soviet Union
Service/branch	Red Army
Years of service	1939–1945
Rank	Major General
Battles/wars	Battles of Khalkhin Gol Second World War
Awards	Order of Lenin Order For Courage 1st class
Website	www.grigorenko.org

Petro Grigorenko or Petro Hryhorovych Hryhorenko (Ukrainian: Петро́ Григо́рович Григоре́нко, 16 October [O.S. 3 October] 1907 – 21 February 1987) was a high-ranking Soviet Army commander of Ukrainian descent, who in his fifties became a dissident and a writer, one of the founders of the human rights movement in the Soviet Union.^[1]

For 16 years, he was a professor of cybernetics at the Frunze Military Academy^[2] and chairman of its cybernetic section^[3][4] before joining the ranks of the early dissidents. In the mid-1970s Grigorenko helped to found the Moscow Helsinki Group and the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, before leaving the USSR for medical treatment in the United States. The Soviet government barred his return, and he never again returned to the Soviet Union.^[5][6] In the words of Joseph Alsop, Grigorenko publicly denounced the "totalitarianism that hides behind the mask of so-called Soviet democracy."^[7]