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"Newt Gingrich: Reagan Was a 'Remarkable Leader' " Newsmax.com
"Ronald Reagan: Rendezvous with Destiny" is the latest film about the life and presidency of Ronald Reagan. Natan Sharansky - who at the time was in the Gulag in Siberia - tells the story of how when they learned that Reagan had said 'evil empire,' the morale of the prison guards dropped and the morale of the prisoners went up. And that was the decisive beginning of the end in terms of the Soviet empire itself.
"Video Interview with Natan Sharansky" Leadel - Leadership Elements
In this interview Natan Sharansky shares his experiences as a Soviet dissident, all the while emphasizing Israel's role in his vision of freedom. Natan vividly explains his difficulties and triumphs of imprisonment, including his love for singing. He also touches on the long separation from his wife while he was locked away in the Gulag.
"Between Existentialism and Marxism or Fear No Evil The Classic Memoir of One Mans Triumph over a Police State" Environmental Politics Books
Temperamentally and intellectually, Natan Sharansky is a man very much like many of us—which makes this account of his arrest on political grounds, his trial, and ten years' imprisonment in the Orwellian universe of the Soviet gulag particularly vivid and resonant.
"Peace with Islam is A Call to Democracy" A Million Chimpanzees:
An excellent book that illustrates the plight of a subjugated people is Natan Sharansky's The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror. Sharansky himself was a Soviet Jewish dissident, living in Russia during the cold war period. He points out that, while some of the citizens truly supported the Soviet goals and were "partners" with the oppressive regime, most people wanted to at least have a greater dialogue with the west and at most, the freedom to leave the Communist state. Few people live in a dictatorship by choice.
"Here, but not quite there" The Jerusalem Post
Natan Sharansky is a genuine hero of our time, a prisoner of Zion held captive behind the Iron Curtain, rescued by the indefatigable efforts of his courageous wife Avital and the grassroots activist movement on behalf of Soviet Jewry which developed in America of the '60s and '70s. He became a minister in the Israeli government and is a celebrated author and spokesman on behalf of freedom, democracy and morality.
"Shevat's compact from USCJ" Conservative Judaism
Could we see Natan Sharansky’s nine years in a Soviet prison as the seed that produced the oak that ultimately helped shatter Soviet totalitarianism? History is full of examples of small acts that grew in impact beyond anyone’s expectations.
"Putin Rewriting Stalin's Bloody History" Netwmd
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is busily rewriting the history of former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's blood-thirsty dictatorship over the Soviet Union. So says the BBC in a story entitled, "Stalin could win Russian vote," published today. This is a frightening development given the well-documented terror under which the Soviet people lived during Stalin's reign.
"The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia" New York Times
For many years, Orlando Figes observes, the memoirs of intellectual dissidents, like Eugenia Ginzburg and Nadezhda Mandelstam, and the work of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, “were widely greeted as the ‘authentic voice’ of ‘the silenced,’” telling us “what it had ‘been like’ to live through the Stalin Terror as an ordinary citizen.” Their books did indeed reflect the experience of people like themselves, who were “strongly committed to ideals of freedom and individualism.” But they did not represent what happened to millions of other people who were not opponents of the regime and did not engage in any kind of substantial dissent, but were still dispatched to labor camps, to exile in remote settlements or to summary execution.
From Soviet gulag to Reagan honor : National Ventura County Star
Sharansky, a human rights activist whose nine-year imprisonment became an international symbol of Soviet oppression, was honored Wednesday night with the 2008 Ronald Reagan Freedom Award.
"Don't Talk to Strangers...or Foreigners," The Moscow Times
The most famous case of Soviet suppression of freedom of speech was in 1978, when the KGB arrested Nathan Sharansky, a co-founder of the Moscow Helsinki Group who, after emigrating to Israel, served as the country's deputy prime minister and minister of several ministries.
"Don't Talk to Strangers...or Foreigners," The Moscow Times
The most famous case of Soviet suppression of freedom of speech was in 1978, when the KGB arrested Nathan Sharansky, a co-founder of the Moscow Helsinki Group who, after emigrating to Israel, served as the country's deputy prime minister and minister of several ministries.
"Reading between the lines" What Free Society Means
The good natured man ducking the shoes of a hateful Iraqi journalist created the society where that journalist can practise his craft freely and be treated fairly for his crime and not tortured to death for it.
Blinkx Video: Natan Sharansky
Natan Sharansky was born in 1948 in Donetzk, Ukraine. He became active in the human rights movement led by Andrei Sahkharov and very quickly became internationally known as the spokesperson for the Refusenik movement. At the same time he applied for an exit visa to Israel, which he was denied for "security reasons". Mr. Sharansky was arrested and sentenced to thirteen years in prison, including solitary confinement and hard labor. After nine years of imprisonment, due to intense international pressure, Mr. Sharansky was released on February 11, 1986.
YouTube - Introduction to Natan Sharansky
Video of Natan Sharansky landing in Israel after nine years of brutal imprisonment in the Soviet gulag in February 1986. HE is greeted by masses of people welcoming the former Soviet dissident to his homeland.
YouTube - Conversations with History: Natan Sharansky
UC Berkeley's Harry Kreisler welcomes Natan Sharansky, a former minister in the Israeli government and a leading figure in the human rights movement in the Soviet Union during the last stages of the Cold War. They discuss how he survived imprisonment in the Gulag, the role of human rights in bringing on the demise of communism, and the implications of the global human rights struggle for the search for peace in the Middle East.
Is Spreading Democracy in Middle East a Bad Idea? : NPR
"Take Russia. When Russia was part of the totalitarian Soviet system, it was your worst enemy. When Soviet Union fell apart and Russia went towards freedom, it almost became your ally. Today, when freedom is there in retreat, in a big retreat, it becomes again a threat to America. ... You take North Korea, you take Iran ... whenever there is a threat to America it means that democracy is there, in retreat."
History Books - Russia: Fear No Evil
For anyone with an interest in human rightsand anyone with an appreciation for the resilience of the human spirithe illuminates the weapons with which the powerless can humble the powerful: physical courage, an untiring sense of humor, a bountiful imagination, and the conviction that "Nothing they do can humiliate me. I alone can humiliate myself."
Asia Times Online :: Asian News, Business and Economy.
The Jewish "refusenik" Natan Sharansky became a symbol of Soviet human rights violation, and president Ronald Reagan's personal support for the dissidents - often over objections of his diplomats - introduced hairline fractures into Soviet Power.
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The Jewish "refusenik" Natan Sharansky became a symbol of Soviet human rights
violation, and president Ronald Reagan's personal support for the dissidents -
often over objections of his diplomats - introduced hairline fractures into
Soviet Power.
Being Sharansky by Jay Nordlinger on National Review / Digital
The ex-Soviet dissident, now a key Israeli, has been famous and important for a long time. He was only 25 when he applied for his exit visa, and not long after that he became the face of the “refuseniks.”
Out of the Ordinary: A Real Life Hero
As long as there are men like Natan Sharansky there is a reason for hope, and a knowledge that there are still real heroes.
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