Complete the text with was / were or there was / there were. Andrei Sakharov (1) … the winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1975. He (2) … an eminent nuclear physicist of the Soviet Union and a defender of human rights and democracy. (3) … an atomic bomb project in the Soviet Union, which Sakharov joined in 1948. (4) … plans to test a 100-megaton hydrogen bomb in the atmosphere in 1961. Sakharov (5) … the only one who openly protested against that testing. It (6) … Solzhenitsyn who nominated Sakharov for the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1973. Andrei Sakharov (7) … one of the world’s great thinkers, who presented a vision for a peaceful society where (8) … respect for human rights.

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