"Ah, Soviet Justice! The accused falls to the ground, weeping at the horror of his crime against the state, flagellating himself for having the termerity to defy the will of the Great Leader and begging forgiveness before being sentenced to the Gulag for Anti-Soviet Agitation!

With any luck, historians fifty years later can determine if he was actually guilty of anything." -- Comment @ Guardian

I am really depressed over this (really, this kind of ruined my day).
I wish he would have been defiant to the end, but I can only guess he's had several years of people regurgitating the same message to him in captivity; "you were wrong", etc.
I hope this is just a plea for a lighter sentence, and I hope he knows how right he was in doing what he did. He's sacrificing his life for higher morals.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Let him make a statement and be accused of forcing it, don't let him make a statement and be accused of silencing him.

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Yeah well, fuck only knows how dehumanised, confused and weary he is by now.

@radx, perfect title, brother. Spot on, this is pretty much a Stalin era show trial.

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Pretty sure the sentiments of the perpetrators of these exhibitions take the, "If it still works, why change it" approach to tribunal justice.

Pretty obvious he committed a crime, ain't it? Sometimes it's not that complicated.