I stand with Vladimir and his fight against the tyrant.
However, I do not share his optimistic belief that Russia will ever become free of tyranny and oppression. It's history and the culture itself do not support the view. I know it firsthand, too.
It takes a brave person indeed who is willing to sacrifice everything to stand by principles of individual freedoms. - Especially knowing what he will be facing for the next 25 years.
I think this man has a lot more in common with the J6 defendants who have languished in jail without trial for more than two years than he does with Russian citizens. And I am afraid that many more Americans will suffer his fate, with 'show trials' patterned after his, and with long sentences to keep them silent.
Makes you wonder where on earth (literally) "your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore" can hope to escape to, if "the shining city on the hill" go, if America becomes another Russia?
There’s nothing can be revealed about the misery and brutishness of Putin’s regime that could possibly move the freshly minted American fanatics of the new isolationism and Putin apologists. The only thing that they have to say is that “things are just the same” in the US. We all know things are not heading in the right direction, to say the least, but we don’t see the “Bruces” and “Lillias” that haunt the comments put in a cage by the intelligence services. No respect for true suffering, no sense of proportion, no idea that two wrongs don’t make a right.
These zealots remind me of the American communists who gladly attended and applauded the show trials put up by Stalin in the ‘30s, claiming that America is where the misery and suffering is. At least they got what they deserved when Stalin killed them a few years later, as unreliable foreigners. Today’s US needs to somehow get away from zealots on both sides - they feed each other and will bring this country down together.
arent we lucky that our journalists like Taibbi, Wiess, Fang and Schellenberger are not sitting in jail .. yet. always be aware.. freedom is but a thread away...
Wow. I am so humbled. Such bravery.
such hope and love of country! I wish our youth were like this
I stand with Vladimir and his fight against the tyrant.
However, I do not share his optimistic belief that Russia will ever become free of tyranny and oppression. It's history and the culture itself do not support the view. I know it firsthand, too.
Hopefully, one day when justice is served, this man will be a part of the new provisional government of a free Russia
It takes a brave person indeed who is willing to sacrifice everything to stand by principles of individual freedoms. - Especially knowing what he will be facing for the next 25 years.
I think this man has a lot more in common with the J6 defendants who have languished in jail without trial for more than two years than he does with Russian citizens. And I am afraid that many more Americans will suffer his fate, with 'show trials' patterned after his, and with long sentences to keep them silent.
Makes you wonder where on earth (literally) "your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore" can hope to escape to, if "the shining city on the hill" go, if America becomes another Russia?
Mr Kara-Murza is amazingly courageous. He reinforces how fortunate we are as Americans.
I hope Vladimir Kara-Murza lives to see the day that he predicts will come some day.
And I hope - but frankly do not expect - that it comes soon.
It's not surprising. Neither Russia nor China have ever been democracies. There are always the brave few willing to tell the truth.
My first thought:
Do you think there's any chance the senior Senator from Vermont has, or will, read this?
"...there is a noble, liberal tradition in Russia that stretches back centuries..." Since when?!?!
Wow..a brave man of unyielding principle...
God bless you, sir. And, God bless America!
I look forward to the day that the Russian people can speak without fear.
I look forward to the day that the American press will once again speak the truth and leave out the bias.
I look forward to the day that there are real Presidential press conferences.
Until then, I will continue to read the Free Press.
There’s nothing can be revealed about the misery and brutishness of Putin’s regime that could possibly move the freshly minted American fanatics of the new isolationism and Putin apologists. The only thing that they have to say is that “things are just the same” in the US. We all know things are not heading in the right direction, to say the least, but we don’t see the “Bruces” and “Lillias” that haunt the comments put in a cage by the intelligence services. No respect for true suffering, no sense of proportion, no idea that two wrongs don’t make a right.
These zealots remind me of the American communists who gladly attended and applauded the show trials put up by Stalin in the ‘30s, claiming that America is where the misery and suffering is. At least they got what they deserved when Stalin killed them a few years later, as unreliable foreigners. Today’s US needs to somehow get away from zealots on both sides - they feed each other and will bring this country down together.
arent we lucky that our journalists like Taibbi, Wiess, Fang and Schellenberger are not sitting in jail .. yet. always be aware.. freedom is but a thread away...