Dissident Natan Sharansky: “Thus Russia returns to the USSR”

Jerusalem. In the past two weeks, Russia has become more like the Soviet Union than it has ever been in the past thirty years. This was stated by a man who was closely acquainted with the oppression of the dictatorship and its cruelty, the Soviet dissident and Israeli politician Natan Sharansky. Seventy-three years old, Sharansky in Ukraine was born in Donetsk, the main center of that Donbas region for years de facto under Russian control and the scene of a prolonged war defined as “low intensity” but which caused thousands of deaths.