Natan Sharansky: A President’s Words Saved Me in the Gulag
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and then-president-elect Donald Trump meet at the Élysée Palace in Paris on December 7, 2024. (Photo by Ukrainian Presidency/ Anadolu via Getty Images; illustration by The Free Press)
Reagan was our lifeline in the Soviet Union. Trump’s rhetoric betrays Russia’s freedom fighters.
When I first heard President Donald Trump’s words on the tarmac—when he blamed Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, for starting the war that Russia launched against Ukraine—I was absolutely shocked.
I was shocked because I liked what President Trump was saying in the last months of his campaign trail in 2024. He promised to bring back common sense,…
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