[SaxxonWoods]

Yes, and add this about Reagan and Sharansky:

“Sharansky was in prison when he heard that President Ronald Reagan had called the Soviet Union the “Evil Empire.” The year was 1983. Reagan had uttered the famous — and controversial — words in a speech to the National Association of Evangelicals. “It was one of the most important, freedom-affirming declarations, and we all instantly knew it,” Sharansky said in a 2004 interview. “For us, that was the moment that really marked the end for them, and the beginning for us. The lie had been exposed and could never, ever be untold now. This was the end of Lenin’s ‘Great October Bolshevik Revolution’ and the beginning of a new revolution, a freedom revolution — Reagan’s Revolution.”

[higgmeister]

My next door neighbors were Refuseniks.   Marat was a slip-stick engineer in one of the Soviet Helicopter Design Bureaus.   Marat was employed here until they learned all of the Soviet insights he could share.   He passed away a couple of years ago after he saw his son graduate from Yale.   Galina is the typical widowed naturalized American Jewish Mother, proud of the gifts they have from God.