Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Vladimir Kara-Murza delivered a keynote last week, "A Personal Encounter with Tyranny"

 


With tremendous thanks to President Joe Biden for having negotiated Kara-Murza's release from a Russian prison, last night I listened to this keynote talk the Russian dissident delivered last week. You can find the transcript at the link. My thanks also to Charlie Sykes for including it in his substack last night.

This 40-minute video is well worth your time. That is, if defeating Trump is important to you.

“Dissenters did something brilliantly simple: in an unfree country, they began to behave like free people, thereby changing the moral climate and the country’s prevailing tradition.” — Andrei Amalrik, Russian historian and dissident.