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Today in True Crime

June 1, 1977: Soviet Dissident Charged With Treason

Today in True Crime

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True Crime, Education, History

4.42.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Israeli human rights activist Natan Sharansky was charged with treason and espionage after speaking out against Soviet oppression of Jewish people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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go to amazon.com.uk.U.K. slash prime. Today is Tuesday, June 1st, 2021. On this day in 1977, activist and Russian dissident Natan

0:42.4

Shironsky was charged with treason and espionage by a Soviet court. Nhatan made an enemy

0:49.4

out of the KGB by fighting for the human rights of the oppressed Jewish community in Russia.

0:57.0

Welcome to Today in True Crime, a Spotify original from Parcast.

1:05.0

Today we're discussing the day a Soviet court charged human rights activist Natan Sharanski with treason

1:12.9

and conspiring with Western intelligence. Let's go back to the USSR on June 1, 1977,

1:21.0

right in the midst of the Cold War.

1:26.2

When the Soviet Kremlin charged Natan Shuransky with high treason and espionage, he knew he was in a fight for his life.

1:34.6

In truth, he was only guilty of speaking out against tyranny, a police state and Soviet oppression of the Jewish people.

1:41.7

But now he faced a sentence that might condemn him to a decade

1:46.4

inside one of the world's most hellish prison systems. Natan only had his two great loves to keep

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