Monday, June 07, 2004
A Soviet Jewish Prisoner on Reagan
Here's Natan Sharansky, currently an Israeli cabinet member, and former Soviet prisoner of conscience, on what Reagan meant to them.
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Jason
In 1983, I was confined to an eight-by-ten-foot prison cell on the border of Siberia. My Soviet jailers gave me the privilege of reading the latest copy of Pravda. Splashed across the front page was a condemnation of President Ronald Reagan for having the temerity to call the Soviet Union an "evil empire." Tapping on walls and talking through toilets, word of Reagan's "provocation" quickly spread throughout the prison. We dissidents were ecstatic. Finally, the leader of the free world had spoken the truth – a truth that burned inside the heart of each and every one of us.
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Jason
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