Fear No Evil

This is the classic story of Nathan Sharansky who was throws into the USSR gulag for the crime of wanting to immigrate to Israel and for speaking out against soviet human rights abuses.

Throughout his 9 years in the russian prison sestem Sharansky never let go of his morals and remained steadfast in his beliefs even when it almost cost him his life.

This book should be required reading for everyone especially these days when it seems people are once again starting to forget the evils of communism and are mixing up good and evil.

I highly recommend this to everyone out there!!!!!!

I am not sure how or what to rate this book, since Sharansky was always, despite my not yet being Jewish, a hero to me for some reason. I feel like I only even heard of him after I finished college, yet I recall making dinner for a couple of former Soviet refusniks who'd gotten out of the Ukraine just after the explosion of Chernoble, in Kiev, yet this would have had to have been in 1985, and Chernoble was earlier. Nevertheless, in speaking with them, I felt honored to have a connection with people like Sharansky, who fought an oppressive regime and spoke out for those who could not speak.

I am not sure how or what to rate this book, since Sharansky was always, despite my not yet being Jewish, a hero to me for some reason. I feel like I only even heard of him after I finished college, yet I recall making dinner for a couple of former Soviet refusniks who'd gotten out of the Ukraine just after the explosion of Chernoble, in Kiev, yet this would have had to have been in 1985, and Chernoble was earlier. Nevertheless, in speaking with them, I felt honored to have a connection with people like Sharansky, who fought an oppressive regime and spoke out for those who could not speak.

NO OF PAGES: 437 SUB CAT I: Biography SUB CAT II: Russian Jews SUB CAT III: DESCRIPTION: A computer specialist, Sharansky became in the mid-seventies a spokesman for Moscow's dissidents seeking to emigrate to Israel. First denied an exit visa in 1973, he was subsequently harassed by the KGB, prevented from joining his wife when she left USSRNOTES: SUBTITLE: