Yesterday, Alexei Navalny was buried in Moscow.
While he was still alive and in a labor camp, he wrote messages that were occasionally posted on his Instagram account. I happened to observe how, among many other things, he devoted his thoughts to some Soviet dissidents. A little over a year ago, he wrote about Anatoly Marchenko, who died in a labor camp in 1986.
And on a later occasion he wrote about Natahan Sharansky, who survived the camp and emigrated to Israel. I couldn’t find his post about Sharansky, but found a recently recorded video (see below), in which Sharansky says a few words about his correspondence with Alexei Navalny
Nathan Sharansky was born in the city of Stalino (now Donetsk) in 1948, during the 1970s he fought for the right of Soviet Jews to leave the Soviet Union. He spent nearly nine years in prison, and after his release and emigration to Israel in 1986, he pursued a political career there
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