Great job interviewing Mr. Sharansky. Hope you had a pleasant stay in Israel. Thank you for highlighting the truth, it means a lot in times like these.
You must be very young? Or your elderly acquaintances must be doing poorly. Most of the people I know in their 70s are just like anyone else…except they have more wrinkles, lol.
What is your point??? Who do you try to diminish with this comment? Me, for complementing this incredible man? My elderly relatives?? Thank God, all are doing exceptionally good... What did you try to accomplish?? @@carolnearson7932
Your conversation with Mr Sharansky was utterly riveting and profoundly moving….and I thought Douglas Murray could hardly be bettered. Wow; a fantastic start to your programme Winston. You are doing the world, and all of us, an immense service. Keep going!
@@chrissi3193 One point of correction. I find it unfortunate that Sharansky who is clearly a good and honest man, even as deputy PM of Israel isn’t aware of this. To say that the Jews were not persecuted in the early years of Islam around the 33rd minute of this video is very, very factually incorrect, and this is easily discoverable when reading mainstream Islamic source materials. I highly recommend reading up on the fate of the Jews of Medina after the Hijra of 622 A.D. there is a reason that there are no Jews in Medina, and it is not because they converted to Islam. It’s because they were driven out, and in the case of the Banu Qurayzah tribe, every male who’d reached puberty was decapitated on the direct order of Muhammed while he presided over the executions, which took a full day. This was carried out by his in a circle of disciples, including Ali Ibn Abi Talib, the first male convert and Muhammed’s nephew.
One point of correction. I find it unfortunate that Sharansky who is clearly a good and honest man, even as deputy PM of Israel isn’t aware of this. To say that the Jews were not persecuted in the early years of Islam around the 33rd minute of this video is very, very factually incorrect, and this is easily discoverable when reading mainstream Islamic source materials. I highly recommend reading up on the fate of the Jews of Medina after the Hijra of 622 A.D. There is a reason that there are no Jews in Medina, and it is not because they converted to Islam. It’s because they were driven out, and in the case of the Banu Qurayzah tribe, every male who’d reached puberty was decapitated on the direct order of Muhammed while he presided over the executions in 627CE, which took a full day. This was carried out by his inner circle of disciples, including Ali Ibn Abi Talib, who was the first male convert and Muhammed’s nephew.
Well said sir. Sharansky is a truly great man, and episodes such as the one you cite are conclusive proof that we choose to bypass the uncomfortable truths of old. Sharansky may well have known better way back, doesn't really need to keep it at the forefront of our thinking today. And so we get comfort blankets that become quilts like " Islam is a religion of peace"
I was the elementary school student that accompanied her parents to the annual March down 5th Ave in Manhattan for the Struggle for Soviet Jewry. I was in Washington when Gorbachev met with Reagan. I met and befriended Soviet Union Jews who finally came to America for freedom. I then moved to Israel. Natan Sharansky is a humble giant in the Jewish world and I very much appreciate your hosting him on your show. Looking forward to more! Please consider Dr. Mordechai Kedar!
thank you for marching......i am a soviet jew that escaped after the fall of that heinous place....and i succinctly remember meeting all the Israelis and Americans wanting to help us escape....in my eyes, as a child at that time, you guys were angels. We also came to the USA and now I made Aliyah (well over. a decade ago)
I was incredibly moved by this interview! As someone who grew up Jewish in the former Soviet Union in the 1970's and 80's I could definitely relate to the stories about brutal antisemitism and suppression of our Jewish identity by the Soviet government. Thank you for your wisdom and courage Mr Sharansky!
I, too, was born in Soviet Union in 1979. My great parents survived Holocaust... I still don't know my real surname. Just shows how scared jews were of prosecution. My greatest respect to people who stood up and are still standing for us all, indeed the whole humanity 👏
What an amazing interview! This is my first time listening to Sharansky, and I so want to know more about his life story. I'm already searching for his books. Thank you for making this podcast Winston. From a person who is seeing her country going toward a very difficult path it's so important to listen to amazing voices like the ones of Mr. Murray and Mr. Sharansky. Thank you.
Fear No Evil is a great book. Another book worth reading is Undeclared Wars with Israel by Jeffrey Herf. It also lays out the basic bones of how Marxist theory was (and is) used for manipulation and control. Sharansky is not only brave but smart. He saw through the lies, and as a gifted chess player was able to see beyond the immediate present.
This interview was incredibly moving and powerful. There are giants who move amongst us, people who have been through the worst and continue to better the world with their presence and lessons. He should be preaching to every school
I concur. I'd read of "The Long March Through the Institutions" for years but couldn't believe modern day people who'd known nothing but freedom would actually choose the slavery of Marxism. As promised, modern day college students have become the "useful idiots." Now the Marxists think they've pulled in the radical Islamists but those terrorists are so brainwashed they'll gladly turn their knives and gardening-implements-as-weapons onto the Marxists.
@@MrWorshipMe In Israel? No. I used to be a jewish girl in SSSR, not knowing anything about the history, religion, holidays, nothing about jews, only knowing that it was something to be ashamed of. Then my family came to Israel, and I learned all that, and learned that it's a great pride to be part of this ancient people. I'm not religious, but i know who i am.. And now that i have children, they know that too, they are not ashamed to be jews. This is what people don't get about Israel - it's the only place where we can be us, not defined by other's unkind views of us. So poor or rich, war or not, jews will never leave israel.
"your aim is not to live, it is to remain a free person"... So powerful Excellent interview of a riveting man with experiences and insight we all can learn from Thanks for this, both of you
2 episodes in and this channel is already utterly fantastic!! Best interviews! Thanks Winston❤ "Your goal is not to survive it's to remain a free person"
Mr. Marshal, you are a wonderful interviewer: compassionate, kind, intelligent. Your questions reveal the inner depths of the person you interview. Thank you.
Great video. Natan Sharansky has lead such an amazing life that they could make a movie out of it. I wish the interviewer would have asked Sharansky the following question. 1. If the Russians did not like the Jews, then why were not permitted to leave Russia? 2. How come so many of the Russian oligarchs are Jewish? 3. How much of Israel success, especially in technology, can you attribute to Russian Jews?
As an israeli of Russian decent, i can reply: 1. They were not permitted to leave the SSSR, not Russia. The jews were the only people in SSSR who felt out of place and who had two other Western countries who wanted to take them - Israel and USA (I suppose that if some Soviet Koreans wanted, they could leave to North Korea? but that's not a Western country, so no laundry is being washed on public). But having so many (2 millions, Sharansky said) people wanting to leave would have reflected badly on SSSR - it would show the Soviet citizens that all was not good in SSSR, that their feelings of inadequate lives were legitimate, and the leavers would have shared in the West how life was actually not fun in the SSSR. So it was important for SSSR leaders to keep its people inside. By the same token, it was extremely difficult to leave SSSR as a tourist, and you could only go to other socialist countries. 2. Jews are smart and good at business. Jews value education. These oligarchs are smart and educated people who are good at business. But you only think they are a lot, because the focus is on them. Obviously most of the Russian oligarchs are not jewish. 3. A lot! I work in the israeli hitech industry. There are many many Russian jews. They tend to focus on techinica positions, as they are tecnologically savvy.
Wow. He is a famous name, but i never knew how smart he was, how elloquent, how knowlegable. A stellar interview! I was on verge of tears more than once.
As Italian I remember the story of an old friend of mine who was a pilot during the IIWW. He was the last to bring the mail to the army in the siege of Stalingrad. The were surrounded by the Soviets in Nikolajevka. Flying back but still in Russian soil he saw something that attracted his attention and lowered down to have a better look. On one side of a long pit dug into the ground there stood many people facing some soldiers on the other side. Then the soldiers started shooting and the people fell into the pit. My friend had no idea of what was going on, but he suspected that he had been watching a murder of Jews.
that's how most of my father's side of the family was murdered. they were from a town called Koidanov in belarus, and they were rounded up and shot into a pit. the nazis covered the pit with dirt, and the non-Jewish residents described how the ground shook for three hours after, as the few who survived the shooting tried to desperately escape.
Thank you for sharing this important historical witness. The US Holocaust Museum in Washington DC has extensive documentation of the very thing you described this pilot saw. This is part of their general permanent exhibitions and can be seen by any visitor. The Hoover Institution at Stanford University also has much such documentation in their archives. It is very likely what your friend witnessed.
Winston thank you for this interview. I really appreciate your interviews. You ask great open questions, you listen and respect those you interview. I look forward to hearing your interviews. I really enjoyed your music- I love your banjo playing but this new chapter of your life, is such a wonderful contribution to truth at this time. Thank you 🙏Thank you 🙏
In a wilderness of extreme misaimed conversations, this interview gives me a good basis to go on as a citizen of the US which is collectively losing its mind on both the left and right.
Chess champion. Human rights activist. Israeli MP. And THIS interview in his 3rd language. This man is a genius. Wonderful interview, informative, insightful, honest, and touching. Echoes all the same sentiments as my ex-USSR family.
This is a wonderful interview.The questions were great . The person you interviewed was so authentic and interesting. He helped me to understand some of the questions I ask myself and my children, about why there has always been Jew hatred so strongly as to want to kill and torture us in the worst imaginable ways . I still wonder why people want to even do more than to. kill the Jews , but to slaughter, torture, rape , mutilate , wanting the total destruction of our very existence. Here , in this interview, we get a very good history lesson from the inside , and an excellent analysis from the studious work from studying the surrounding World History, up until today. I pray for the World to learn that living in love is so much more meaningful than cautioning hate and to live in the a society that perpetuates it . Obviously , these people can not build anything or create any interesting works , culture, within those societies, as well as hierarchical, women hating, patriarchal dictatorships in the surrounding Arab World. In effect, the world suffers and those who are indoctrinated into that, the innocent, who would like to live something else than terror oppression . I pray the World wakes up to see that they who have bought the lies about the rewriting of history, “pro -Palestine, Hamas , and think it’s cool to hate Jews are only the marionettes of the bigger plan to join the people together after dividing them over issues such as Covid , race , trans , left , right , …. to bring all of those fighting for their own freedom against the mal intentions of elitist ideology , the war against the people, so that they forget who they are finding a group they can feel part of after being isolated, alone , afraid, deprived of the basics of humanity, others glad to expiation their hate, others happy to find a scapegoat, and those whom are consciously or innately antisemitic . The World order is bringing this upon us so to banalise the kind of cruelty and violence that radical Islamic Extremism provides for society living under their regime. We are being attacked by a secret war that is much more serious which would be more than happy to allow these terrorists to seem like the real opposition, if they should be allowed to do Jihad . The World order will have to wash the blood off of their hands for eternity.
Soviet antisemitism is a fascinating topic with huge significance today . Putin is tinkering in every single existing conflict in the world for his own benefit even today.
Nothing new under the sun. Just the same boring mistakes made through ignorance. The road to hell is constantly re-paved with good intentions. Even when those who survived the mistakes come and tell us we just don't care enough to act on it and so it continues. Hard to not feel depressed about it.
Yes humanity does continuously make the same mistakes but a few people have really sort to find out the root cause and they found it, If you want to get out of this cycle of suffering you can if you follow the Buddha’s teachings…he saw the source and he found a path which works…not many want to but those who do, live the most peaceful life possible.
Hello Mr. Marshall, do you think you can get Yoseph Haddad on? He's an Arab Israeli and a former IDF combat soldier who spends his time bridging between Jewish and Arab Israelis.
I find it unfortunate that Sharansky who is clearly a good and honest man, even as deputy PM of Israel isn’t aware of this. To say that the Jews were not persecuted in the early years of Islam around the 33rd minute of this video is very, very factually incorrect, and this is easily discoverable when reading mainstream Islamic source materials. I highly recommend reading up on the fate of the Jews of Medina after the Hijra of 622 A.D. there is a reason that there are no Jews in Medina, and it is not because they converted to Islam. It’s because they were driven out, and in the case of the Banu Qurayzah tribe in 627CE, every male who’d reached puberty was decapitated on the direct order of Muhammed while he personally presided over the executions, which took a full day. This was carried out by his inner circle of disciples, including Ali Ibn Abi Talib, the first male convert and Muhammed’s nephew.
I did a short organized tour in Russia in 1974 for about 7 days. Organized tours were the only ones allowed and each tour group was accompanied by an official guide/'observer' provided by the Ministry of Tourism. At almost every major Tourist attraction was a stand containing pro-Russian and anti Israel literature in English...free for the taking. One thin booklet I remember well was a collection of letters from Israel supposedly written by ex- Russians [mostly elderly] who were pleading with Mother Russia to allow them to return. It outlined the life they were living in less than perfect Israel and phrases such as 'crime against Russia '[for leaving/betraying home] cropped up regularly. Over a period of 10 years over 1 million Russian speaking Jews moved to Israel and those that stayed changed the face of Israel for the better.
In the Hebrew morning prayers, there is one blessing in which God is thanked for providing the wisdom to know the difference between night and day. Apparently, hyper-education robs otherwise intelligent people of that ability. People become so sophisticated that they can talk themselves into believing that night is day and day is night
I fully appreciate his amazing life and achievements, his analysis of antisemitism in the USSR, but it must be said that many, many Jews were grateful to the Soviets for their liberation from the death camps.
Liberation? Lol. Soviets started that war and occupied Poland together, they were sponsoring hitler. They didn’t let Jews flee Germany and Poland even transit. They committed themselves many national operations and g e n o c i d e s. What are you talking about? They themselves were not better but worse. Just sometimes it happens that the monster I doing once what you need.
It’s not just progressivism that’s a problem it’s all ideologies that stem from Marxism. These definitions (progressivism, liberalism, postmodernism, etc) change overtime, which causes confusion. Perhaps more accurately it’s modern western progressivism that’s the problem in today’s context. Of course, fascism is also problematic, which has key similarities to communism.
You are 100% correct. For decades I'd encountered the phrase, "The Long March Through the Institutions" but didn't comprehend the tidal wave that would develop from that form of Marxist warfare. Now that this evil tactic has reared its hideous head in every aspect of Western civilization I can now see how perilous a situation we now find ourselves in. But, young journalists like Winston Marshall are a stubborn glimmer of light and (dare I say it?) hope.
Marxists say Liberalism is their main enemy. Social Democrats in 1920s Germany, the KPD (and Stalin?) called them Social Fascists. But Liberals can be tricked into moving Left. Weak firewall to protect Liberalism from infiltration of Marxist ideas.
It is cruel to ask a wronged person if they can forgive an evil deed by an evil person. 1) WHY SHOULD THEY?? 2) HOW DARE YOU PUSH THE VICTIM TO FORGIVE?
What about how happy Jews were when the red army pushed out the nazi invaders? Jew were in many positions of authority in Soviet Union from its beginning . Soviet Union was one of the first Nations to recognize the new state of Israel in 1948.
I learned that some German Christian theologians and ministers became atheist philosophers following Hegel. They influenced Fauerbach and Marx. I'm not a historian.
I love the POV You should ask how it is we all missed hunter Biden doing the same thing as from the movie Micky Blue eyes selling those paintings .. thoughts 💭
Jews were only more secure under the early caliphates as long as they paid their dhimmi taxes… it also depended on the caliph at the time or sultan depending where they were in MENA. Not so cut and dry with early Islam. Jews were considered second class citizens, had to cross the street if a Muslim was walking on the same side, were forbidden from riding horses if god forbid they seemed to sit higher than a Muslim and paid jizya tax for “protection”… like in a mafia. So… perhaps relative to Christian Europe in that period of time, had another option hence a little illusion of more security but inevitably quite precarious. He is right though that the Jew hatred today has been appropriated from ancient Christian world tropes and tsarist Russian conspiracy theories that the Nazis also appropriated by the way…. It’s an amalgamation of horrid Quran verses and Muhammad’s war and pillaging of the Jewish tribes of Medina and Jewish refusal to convert to Islam and Soviet/Nazi propaganda. And the Neo-marxist wackos have eaten up every bit of it en masse.
