Zionist American Spy Gets Presidential Medal of Freedom
Natan Sharansky, center, shakes hands with President Bush, right, after receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Americas highest civil award, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Dec. 15, 2006. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds) While in Russia:
In 1973, Sharansky applied for an exit visa to Israel, but was refused on “security” grounds. He remained prominently involved in Jewish refusenik activities until his arrest in 1977.
Convicted in 1978 of treason and spying on behalf of the United States, Sharansky was sentenced to thirteen years imprisonment.
He spent 16 months in Moscow's Lefortovo prison, frequently in solitary confinement and in a special “torture cell,” before being transferred to a notorious prison camp in the Siberian gulag.
posted by HRM Deborah of Israel and the Messenger of Peace at 7:32 AM
2 Comments:
Although one can be very much opposed to Sharansky's politics once he got involved in Israeli politics, there is little credibility to recalling his convictions during the Soviet era as proof of anything. As everyone will know, Soviet 'justice' was anything but just and was more than frequently a way to silent political dissidence. Sharansky, for a time a human rights activist colleague of Andrei Sakharov (who also was arrested and sent at one time to internal exile in a closed city - and no one gives any credibility to the charges he was arrested under), suffered greatly as a political prisoner due to his struggle for human rights in general and for Soviet Jews (and it is a fact that Jews who wanted to live as Jews were severely discriminated in the Soviet Union).
Given the general high quality of your weblog, I was suprised to see your choice of Soviet 'justice' to make a point about Sharansky.
Lennybruce,
While the political Communistic system that was going on at the time that created the plight of the Jewish refuseniks, I always found it deployable.
Most of the crimes they where every charged with I did and still do question, because they were more trumped up charges that ended them time and again in many types of prison’s mainly in Siberia.
I found it quite interesting that Natan Sharansky was accused, tried and sentence for working for the American’s and this was brought forward by the Jewish side of the fence.
I am sure he was doing this to get himself and his family out of Russia, but spying within any country is a grave offence, even go so far in some countries by death.
A big question pops in my mind that if Sharansky was found to be a spy back then, that his achievements thus far is found to be in question due to his previous activities.
Furthermore, why would at this time especially with all the up roar between the American’s and Israeli's is going on in this time; that and Israeli would win such an award from and American government and not by Israel?
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