[Stateside Twins' Eyeshot]Freedom in Destruction

Natan Sharansky  is a former Soviet dissident, human rights activist, former prisoner of Zion, Israeli politician and author. In March 1977, he was arrested, and in July 1978 convicted on charges of treason and spying for the United States, and sentenced to 13 years of forced labor. In 1986, he was released to East Germany and led across the Glienicke Bridge to West Berlin where he was exchanged for a pair of Soviet spies: Karl Koecher and his wife, Hana Koecher.