Opinion by Natan Sharansky: The cases of Putin’s most prominent critics, Kara-Murza and Navalny, show how Russia has revived almost Stalinist-era levels of punishment for dissent.
during the closing session of his trial, “I also know that the day will come when the darkness over our country will dissipate … when those who kindled and unleashed this war, rather than those who tried to stop it, will be recognized as criminals. This day will come as inevitably as spring follows even the coldest winter.”History shows that there are two necessary conditions for the fall of a tyrannical government such as Putin’s.
The second condition is leaders and citizens of the free world standing in solidarity with those struggling inside. Today, because of his unforgivable aggression in Ukraine, Putin has earned the opprobrium of the world. Yet much more can be done to stop him: by linking all economic and other contacts with his regime to the fate of these democratic dissidents.
It is in helping to forge such solidarity that dissident leaders truly have a historic role to play. During Brezhnev’s time, it was the work of the Helsinki Group and other opposition movements that stirred international awareness and action against the regime. Today, Kara-Murza, Navalny and others are accomplishing that under even more terrifying and oppressive conditions.
If they can muster optimism in these darkest of times, then we owe it to them — and to ourselves — to do the same.
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