You do not become a 'dissident' just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society.

People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these pa…

There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad da…

Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not …

For the love of God, for the love of your children and of the civilization to which you belong, cease this madness. You are mortal men. You are capable of erro…

'You seek up a big monster for him to fight your wars for you'

It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all. The far and the near, the home counties and the back…