Showing posts with label Vanity Fair magazine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vanity Fair magazine. Show all posts

Friday, March 30, 2012

Taking a Stand and Making a Difference When it Really, Really, Really Hurts

From the April issue of Vanity Fair magazine and an article called "The Wrath of Putin." The photo is of a man called Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

Reading about someone willing to go to prison because he's taken an ethical stand fills me with awe. Rare as it is, when I see it, I cheer on the valiant one, while at the same time I wonder if I could--or would--ever do likewise.

Thus is the story of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the only man who has stood up to the thuggish, corrupt, evil Vladimir Putin and is alive to tell the tale. Alive. But in the darkest prison in the depths of Russia.