Conversations with History: Natan Sharansky

UC Berkeley's Harry Kreisler welcomes Natan Sharansky, a minister in the Israeli government and a leading figure in the human rights movement in the Soviet Union during the last stages of the Cold War. They discuss how he survived imprisonment in the Gulag, the role of human rights in bringing on the demise of communism, and the implications of the global human rights struggle for the search for peace in the Middle East.
Series: "Conversations with History" [10/2004] [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 8990]

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Israeli
• Sharansky
• human
• rights
• Cold
• war
• communism

[jewvinillejew]

Man this video is very educational. I love it so much. I understand it so well that I think we should not have a test on it. Our Rabbi may make us take a test on this video but hopefully he wont.

[jenlovesisrael]

Natan Sharansky is an incredible human being. His crime for nine years of harsh punishment in the communist regime was his ancestry: he is Jewish.

He is brilliant and has worked tirelessly for Soviet Jewry. Sharansky is simply an amazing person who deserves our utmost respect.

[jumpnjza2]

Thank you USSR for keeping this zionist locked up even if it was brief!

Thank you USSR for making it difficult to emigrate to Israel!

[karpule]

Jeremiah 23:8 "As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the descendants of Israel up out of the land of the north and out of all the countries where he had banished them."

[karpule]

Big honour for us that we  have hosted Mr. Natahn Sharanszkij in Hungary.A historical personality who is for democracy and acted with courage against the antisemitism.He is Prophet of God who leaded out the jews people from Sovjetunion.(from the North of the Land)

[cb44ever]

bein a socialist ...firts off nazi is national socialist party dummy..also eichman was busted in where argentina ...the odessa network actually sent a majority of nazi officers to south america so educate yaself dummy

[Xenu]

Your evidence that I am a Nazi is what exactly? I would think that being latino & a socialist would immediately remove me from consideration. Sharansky is an enemy of human rights & one of the leaders of the expansion of the Israeli settlements into Palestinian territory. The religious fundamentalists that live in the settlements are fascistic and a serious threat to Israeli security. Pie-Face has taken a lead role in creating this Frankenstein that may eventually lead to Israel's destruction.

[vadimzdonutube]

fuck you nazi pig

[longleggedmakdaddy]

AN AMAZING TRUE HERO!

[patnais102]

Religious people are really nuts.Listening to this video show how there is no way to end the israeli/palestinian conflict.Israel is an extremist state it's based on extremist principle.

[revolutionaryluddite]

With the 'Doctors' plot' propaganda underway, Stalin- who had a deep personal history of anti-semitism- deliberately planned a systematic purge that would have amounted to a second holocaust. His death put an end to that plan.