Natan Sharansky interviewed for the documentary "Ronald Reagan: Rendezvous with Destiny" — Transcript
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- 0:06Reagan's words resonated throughout
- 0:08Europe and the Soviet Union dissidents
- 0:10including Natan sharansky later said
- 0:13they drew courage from President
- 0:14Reagan's message while locked away in
- 0:16Soviet prisons I would say that one of
- 0:19the best days for us in Gulag and for
- 0:22all my nine years in Gulag the day of
- 0:25optimism was the day of evil empire
- 0:28speech of President re we became so
- 0:31enthusiastic we immediately thought
- 0:32about those of our friends who at this
- 0:34moment in the punishing cell and they
- 0:36don't know so we started communicating
- 0:38with them we were knocking from cell to
- 0:40cell through mors alphabet we were
- 0:42talking through the toilet we were
- 0:44shouting through the corridors ignoring
- 0:46the warnings of prison Gods because it
- 0:48was the great news that finally the
- 0:51leader of this free world calls a spade
- 0:55a spade and as we dis believed that will
- 0:59be the final
- 1:00stage of the existence of Soviet Empire
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