If you cannot remember the world before 1989, it is important to listen to those who lived behind what we once called "
The Iron Curtain." Some of them had opportunities to defect and come here. Mikhail Baryshnikov, who is an
enormous hero of mine, was one. Here is his warning. For me, this is
HUGE!
“Hundreds of thousands of people like me have fled countries led by dangerous, totalitarian opportunists ― like Donald Trump.”
08/17/2016
Mikhail
Baryshnikov, the famed Russian ballet dancer and actor who defected
from the former Soviet Union in 1974, warned in a video released
Wednesday that Republican presidential nominee
Donald Trump could bring Soviet-style authoritarianism to the United States.
“Take
it from one who knows: Hundreds of thousands of people like me have
fled countries led by dangerous, totalitarian opportunists ― like Donald
Trump,” Baryshnikov says in the video, produced by an organization
called Art Not War.
The video is part of a campaign called
Humanity for Hillary, in which artists have collaborated to endorse
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and advocate against
Trump.
Read more and hear Misha in his own powerful words here >>>>
Of course I will also grab any excuse to include Dame Helen Mirren who
also endorsed Hillary
and has issued similar warnings about Trump. The photo is from the
movie
White Nights in which Misha plays a defector whose plane crashes
in the Soviet Union and Helen plays the girl he left behind.
